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A creature which looked to Eddie like a large mechan-ical bat thudded to earth between the place where Eddie now lay and the one where Susannah knelt beside Roland.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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He started to say, "Andrew Wexler, please, tell him it's?" but a mechan-ical voice, familiar and indifferent to interruption, broke in on his request.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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He walked right in, unchallenged by human or mechan-ical intervention.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Then I believed that of my discoveries in energy generation and gravity-field mechan-ics.
The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979
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'But what about the booby-traps and trigger mechan - isms these Pandora people have been talking about?' asked Dr Price.
Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973
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'But what about the booby-traps and trigger mechan - isms these Pandora people have been talking about?' asked Dr Price.
Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973
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The distinction of classical-romantic occurs for the first time in Coleridge's lectures, given in 1811, and is there clearly derived from Schlegel, since the dis - tinction is associated with that of organic and mechan - ical, painterly and sculpturesque, in close verbal adherence to Schlegel's phrasing.
ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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Page 245, Volume 1 molecule and with its preoccupation with the mechan - ical interactions between molecules, there has been an increase in macroscopic modelling.
BIOLOGICAL MODELS R. C. LEWONTIN 1968
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Even in late medieval Europe the development of the mechan - ical clock did not spring from a desire to register the passage of time but rather from the monastic demand for accurate determination of the hours when the vari - ous religious offices and prayers should be said.
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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Harvey had made a splendid advance in this field with his mechan - ical theory of the circulation of the blood.
BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968
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