99 examples of clockwork in sentences

With the precision of clockwork the Irish and dismounted yeomanry divisions secured their objectives, and on the second day of the fighting we regained the initiative and compelled the Turks to conform to our dispositions.

Still farther be it from us to blunt the edge of appetite by sapiently essaying to "analyze" and account for Lamb's special zest and flavor, as though his writings, or any others worth the reading, were put together upon principles of clockwork.

We are told that everything throughout the day was conducted with the exactness of clockwork.

When required for reading, both rollers are fixed in a stand, and slowly moved by clockwork, which spreads before the eyes of the reader a length of about four inches at once.

They have known no life but that of the strict clockwork routine of a great Nursery, where no personal affection and no rule but that of force is possible.

We have fallen on a very careless usage, speaking of wild creatures as if they were bound by some such limitation as hampers clockwork.

Truth N. fact, reality &c (existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c 983.1; authenticity; veracity &c 543; correctness, correctitude^. accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c adj.; precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision &c (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.

780. mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike^, gavelock^, jemmy^, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan &c (lift) 307; wheel &c (rotation) 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald^, heddle^, jenny, parbuckle^, sprag^, water wheel.

All his motions are regular, as if he went by clockwork, and he goes very true to the nick as he is set.

AN HYPOCRITE Is a saint that goes by clockwork, a machine made by the devil's geometry, which he winds and nicks to go as he pleases.

THE AFFECTED OR FORMAL Is a piece of clockwork, that moves only as it is wound up and set, and not like a voluntary agent.

''Yes, and you'll see now that everything will go on like clockwork.

In fact, the establishment was conducted with the regularity of clockwork, it being the aim of its master not to pass a single hour of the day unprofitably.

and paid his money as regular as clockwork.

He knows, few in our nation so well, that of a world of new machinery, the highest king and priest would be the neatest clockwork figure.

The roller was moved by clockwork, and the advertisements went round like the towel.

I got to 'ate the sight of 'im. Every week regular as clockwork he used to come round to me with his 'and out, and then go and treat 'is mates to beer with my money.

For uncounted centuries before ever hearing of "Gravitation" men knew of the sun that he rose and set at hours which, though mysteriously appointed, could be accurately predicted; of the moon that she regularly waxed and waned, drawing the waters of the earth in a flow and ebb, the gauge of which and the time-table could be advertised beforehand in the almanack; of the stars, that they swung as by clockwork around the pole.

The spectrum of a star formed by this apparatus is extremely narrow when the telescope is driven by clockwork in the usual way.

I seem to be a person listening from some gallery when they all speak around me, and that the Ambrosine who answers placidly is an automaton who moves by clockwork.

The Queen was surprised at so much wit and good sense in so small an animal, and took me in her own hand to the King, who, though as learned a person as any in his dominions, conceived I might be a piece of clockwork, until he heard me speak.

None of your clockwork professional journalism in this office.

He might have been clockwork.

As regularly as clockwork cross summonses are taken out before the Bench, and then the women on either side reveal an unequalled power of abuse and loquacity, leaving a decided impression that it is six to one and half a dozen to the other.

Moreover, the key at the farther end of the line could be so arranged as to make an impression on a piece of paper that was slowly drawn under it by clockwork.

99 examples of  clockwork  in sentences