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Thanks but I'd rather stay here and read, read until the lamplit page revolves to a white stasis whose detachment shines like a propeller's rainbowed radiance, you know what I mean?
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Unlike a gear box which can reverse the propeller's rotation, the vee belt drive is restricted to one direction only.
Chapter 6 1983
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That as the wing is in its stroke an arc of a screw propeller's operation, and in its angle a screw propeller blade, its animal operation compels its reciprocation instead of rotation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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The changes were made even as he spoke; the propeller's hum grew into a mild roar through the cabin walls, and the Sky-Bird leaped away over the ground, gaining momentum at every yard.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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The propeller's diameter depends on the column of water behind necessary to overcome the resistance in front of it due to the properties of the vessel.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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He made, however, straight for the bulkhead, and stooping down, held the candle close to the line of bolts covering the propeller's tunnel.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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She did not want the propeller's wash to disturb them.
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Laura Lee Hope
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She did not want the propeller's wash to disturb them.
The outdoor girls at Rainbow Lake: or, the Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem 1913
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The propeller's smashed and we can't live in this sea.
Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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As he replaced the propeller's shear pin with a cut nail, the boy asked them what a stump was doing out in open salt water.
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