cog-wheel

On the chest of one hung a white door-knob, on the chest of another the handle of a china cup, on the chest of a third the brass cog-wheel of an alarm clock.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

I felt that great things, tremendous things, were happening or about to happen, and I, who was the cog-wheel of the whole business, was out of it.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

All that while he felt, though he could not put it into words, that his soul was out of gear with its surroundings — a cog-wheel unconnected with any machinery, just like the idle cog-wheel of a cheap Beheea sugar-crusher laid by in a corner.

Kim 2003

International Herald Tribune, and then sit reading them like any other commuter, first on the cog-wheel train to Gornergrat and then on one of the cable cars that ascend to Stockhorn.

Scaling the Heights 1995

His cosmos may be complete in every rivet and cog-wheel, but still his cosmos is smaller than our world.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

This mill can be made very simple, of two wooden rollers, fastened in a square frame, running against each other, and turned with a crank and cog-wheel.

The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

We know, and at the Grand Rally at New York Spaceport three weeks from tonight we are going to PROVE, that Witherspoon is simply a minor cog-wheel in the Morgan-Towne-Isaacson machine, 'playing footsie' at command with whatever group happens to be the highest bidder at the moment, irrespective of --

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Samarang at 5.57, and after a short run reached a station where our engine was changed for one working on the cog-wheel system, the grade being too heavy for the ordinary locomotive.

Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid

Into this is inserted a small iron rod attached to the machine and revolving with it, but so controlled by a connecting cog-wheel that the rod is pressed at every revolution a little farther into the cavity between the cutters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

The hothouse atmosphere of Padang is gladly exchanged for the freshness of the mountain heights, approached by a cog-wheel railway, and affording truer pictures of Sumatran life than the hybrid port of the steaming Lowlands.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings