A man is sent into the world to wield a hammer, a saw, and run an engine.

" Suiting the action to the word Frank ran with his machine, then gave a vault into the saddle, started the engine, and with a loud popping the motor-cycle began to hustle along the road at a moderately swift pace.

With one movement she threw off the switch, thus stopping the engine, entirely.

Wanting coal, we could not have smelted the iron needed to make our engines, nor have worked our engines when we had got them.

The line was metre gauge and we had no stock to fit it, though later the Egyptian State Railways brought down some engines and trucks from the Luxor-Assouan section, but this welcome aid was not available till after the rains had begun and had made lorry traffic temporarily impossible between our standard gauge railhead and our fighting front.

I reversed our engines and went up to talk to the pilot.

Then we shut off the donkey engine, and put on dry clothes.

Those machines carried four engines and developed a thousand horse-power.

The long resistance of this city gave much dissatisfaction to the khan; which coming to the knowledge of Nicolo and Maffei Polo, then at his court, they offered their services to construct certain engines, after the manner of those used in Europe, capable of throwing stones of three hundred weight, to kill the men, and ruin the houses in the besieged city.

The Romans learned from the Greeks the art of building this formidable engine, which was used with great effect by Alexander, but with still greater by Titus in the siege of Jerusalem; it was first used by the Romans in the siege of Syracuse.

This was not difficult to pick up, for there were many flares burning to enable working parties to repair engines, rolling stock, and permanent way.

Now, turn your engine over till it nears one of the centers, but not quite to it.

He had noticed the mechanical power of steam, but had never seen an engine, and did not know that one existed out of his own brain.

At five o'clock M. O. Sauve, captain in the commercial service, with a handful of brave workmen, got a fire engine into the Cour d'Honneur, and thus saved a great quantity of pictures, precious marbles, furniture, hangings, etc.

Perhaps his talents were not numerous, but he could handle engines, and when it was necessary he could keep awake.

Fuller, the conductor of the stolen train, and his companions, being arrested by the obstructions of the track, left their engine behind and started on foot, finally taking possession of the express passed at Adairsville, and turning it back in pursuit.

and he brings forward that same Chief that I left at BashkaiBilly Fish we called him afterwards, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove the big tank-engine at Mach on the Bolan in the old days.

We say nothing of Themistocles, who, in the war between Xerxes and the Athenians, despairing to prevail upon his countrymen by force of reasoning to quit their city, and betake themselves to sea, set all the engines of religion to work; forged oracles, and procured the priests to circulate among the people, that Minerva had fled from Athens, and had taken the way which led to the port.

He could not hear his engines; one heard nothing but the daunting uproar.

[Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain &c (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.

Wampus had to get out and crank the engines, which he calmly proceeded to do.

A.There is, no doubt, a tendency in oscillating engines for the cylinder and the stuffing box to become oval, but after a number of years' wear it is found that the amount of ellipticity is less than that which is found to exist in the cylinders of side lever engines after a similar trial.

"Yes," he said, "turn her round, and then I'll cut out the engine and throttle her down.

The gong signaled half-speed, and when he slowed his engines the roar of escaping steam pierced the turmoil of the surf.

In page 161, is a reference to Sir Thomas Lombe, "that eminent throwster, who erected the great engine in Derbyshire; a wonderful structure, consisting of twenty-nine thousand five hundred and eighty-six wheels, all set a going and continued in motion by one single water-wheel, for working silk with expedition and success."