One would suppose, to hear the observations of some persons, that mere automatons would do for masters and mistresses.

He moved toward the table with the listlessness of some enormous automaton of a man to whom every step of existence was a step in a treadmill.

Head down, silent, like two grotesque automatons, they trudged on.

Visitors from America were shocked to find no Kindergartens in England, but only large classes of poor little automatons sitting erect with "hands behind" or worse still "hands on heads," and moving only to the word of command.

Peering through a kind of butler's window, he saw beyond the shrine his two pallid subordinates, like mystic automatons, nodding and smoking by the doorway.

" IV THE FLESH-POTS OF EGYPT The westward journey began at the appointed hour in the evening with the resourceful Ormsby in command; and when the outsetting, in which she had to sustain only the part of an obedient automaton, was a fact accomplished, Elinor settled back into the pillowed corner of her sleeping-car section to enjoy the unwonted sensation of being the one cared for instead of the caretaker.

He had become a peripatetic automaton self-dedicated to nocturnal perambulation.

The Poodle is exceptionally sensitive, and is far more efficiently taught when treated as a sensible being rather than as a mere quadrupedal automaton.

We were blind automatons that the fame-seeking archaeologist was dragging at his heels.

The boy loathed the clinging dignities that made of him, at home, a royal automaton, tricked out in tarnished gold lace, faded velvets, and pompous airs.