sausage-machine

Dahl wrote back furiously, arguing that a “clumsy editorial sausage-machine” was destroying many of his “carefully-planned little touches,” and reducing his own “individual style” to generic journalese.71 Ann Watkins, who knew how much Dahl needed the money, tried to smooth over the situation.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

By the way, the Nielsen Haydens are mentioned in several of these sausage-machine "books."

Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

I expected them two would be cut up like meat in a sausage-machine, but, turnin 'to look down the lane, I saw a sight!

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

"My dear fellow," said Thorndyke, "you have not spoken a word for the last quarter of an hour; you have devoured your food with the relentless regularity of a sausage-machine, and you have, from time to time, made the most damnable faces at the coffee-pot -- though there I'll wager the coffee-pot was even with you, if I may judge by the presentment that it offers of my own countenance."

The Red Thumb Mark 1902

While he was giving us these confidences, unfortunately, his eyes came to rest, at first accidentally, then wistfully, then with a horrid gleam in them, on the little dog, which was fooling about on the top of the sausage-machine, and his hands went out toward it convulsively, whereat

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

Then he ran out of the room and came back with the sausage-machine; and what do you think he did?

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

He began to turn the handle of a sausage-machine, and Westray was glad to be quit of his pious words, and still more of his insufferable patronage.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

She put up the cards and boxes, took out a chopper and a napkin, and we cut the little boy's little throat (which he bore with great pluck and resolution), and made him into sausage-meat by the aid of Purkis's excellent sausage-machine.

English Satires Various 1885

He's all but bu'st himself over that calc'latin 'machine, and I'm much afraid that he'll clap Chips into the sausage-machine some day, just to see how it works.

Fighting the Flames 1859

Now I don't want to go into minutiae at table, you know, but a naked hand can no more go through a pane of thick glass without leaving some of its cuticle, to say the least, behind it, than a butterfly can go through a sausage-machine without looking the worse for it.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851