spring-driven

Bob examined the gizmo for a switch, found it, snapped it, and the thing clacked and whirred to life; two clays descended from the stack, rolled to the arm and settled in some kind of grip; the arm suddenly unloosed itself with a spring-driven force and flipped the disks in a curving path across the field.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Each one is spring-driven and runs for an average of 20 hours.

Mr. Roy's Elegant Machines Heather McDougal 2007

Bob examined the gizmo for a switch, found it, snapped it, and the thing clacked and whirred to life; two clays descended from the stack, rolled to the arm and settled in some kind of grip; the arm suddenly unloosed itself with a spring-driven force and flipped the disks in a curving path across the field.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

He put the pick away, took out a plastic credit card, drew that up the door slot to the bolt, and began a steady upward tapping, gentle and persistent, urging the bolt off the spring-driven lever that secured it.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

He put the pick away, took out a plastic credit card, drew that up the door slot to the bolt, and began a steady upward tapping, gentle and persistent, urging the bolt off the spring-driven lever that secured it.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Then, finally, he took his shotgun from his guncart, its pump racked backward to expose empty chamber and empty magazine as well as all the spring-driven, leverage-turned ingenuity of its interior, and moved to set it on the table next to the far window.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Bob examined the gizmo for a switch, found it, snapped it, and the thing clacked and whirred to life; two clays descended from the stack, rolled to the arm and settled in some kind of grip; the arm suddenly unloosed itself with a spring-driven force and flipped the disks in a curving path across the field.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Then, finally, he took his shotgun from his guncart, its pump racked backward to expose empty chamber and empty magazine as well as all the spring-driven, leverage-turned ingenuity of its interior, and moved to set it on the table next to the far window.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

He put the pick away, took out a plastic credit card, drew that up the door slot to the bolt, and began a steady upward tapping, gentle and persistent, urging the bolt off the spring-driven lever that secured it.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Then, finally, he took his shotgun from his guncart, its pump racked backward to expose empty chamber and empty magazine as well as all the spring-driven, leverage-turned ingenuity of its interior, and moved to set it on the table next to the far window.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009