wheelwork

If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

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The wheelwork of the great modern machine is infinitely delicate.

The Simple Life Charles Wagner

If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic -- and this we know it is, for certain -- then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Nikola Tesla 1899

It is well known that Mr Jones has with great success introduced the system of applying galvanic currents originating in the vibrations of a normal pendulum, not to drive the wheelwork of other clocks, but to regulate to exact agreement the rates of their pendulums which were, independently, nearly in agreement; each clock being driven by weight-power as before.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

It would seem to be time, then, for the pivots to be disclosed on which some of the wheelwork of the last six years has been moving.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887

The silent wheelwork of conspiracy had now been in operation for upward of a year.

A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878

Both are included in the prophecies under one name. wheels -- Fairbairn thinks that here, and in Eze 23: 24, as "the wheels" are distinct from the "chariots," some wheelwork for riding on, or for the operations of the siege, are meant.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

A curious wheelwork runs round its four outspread petals; and a chain of minute things, living and dead, is winding in and out of their curves into a gulf at the back of the flower.

The Pleasures of Life John Lubbock 1873

Galgal is the whole wheelwork machinery with its whirlwind-like rotation.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

It would seem to be time, then, for the pivots to be disclosed on which some of the wheelwork of the last six years has been moving.

If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865