gear-work

"Nonsense," Volrath responded, kicking the loose gear-work aside.

Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

He's got clockwork creatures and actual warriors roaming the walls around the academy at all hours, and clay men tramping through the woods by the sea, and gear-work birds that spy on the island.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

It withdrew its gear-work wings and shredders, folded them against its sides, and turned its head quizzically.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

He had seen much of the ancient facility on his way in-the coke chambers and blast furnaces, the mold rooms and rollers, the ancient gear-work and chain drives.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

Karn told himself he should be getting used to the vertiginous moment when the gear-work of the universe ground to a halt and then began slowly to turn backward.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

One of these days we will write him a letter that will really express our heart, filled with all the grindings and gear-work of our mind, rich in affection and fallacy.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

Instead we found this place with a wild variety of - well, attractive - attractions: a nationwide system of excellent bike trails; old underground mills full of wooden gear-work; a cliff-walk, where you hang on ropes and creep along above a hundred foot drop; two separate luge ( "la ligne fée") and toboggan runs; a strange entertainment where they take your bike up to the top of a mountain and then let you ride down real fast (1000 foot descent in 4 minutes); and the farm we stayed at had not only animals and so on but a zip line, a trampoline and wine with the (relatively) inexpensive swiss-french farm dinner.

Archive 2008-07-01 Heather McDougal 2008

Instead we found this place with a wild variety of - well, attractive - attractions: a nationwide system of excellent bike trails; old underground mills full of wooden gear-work; a cliff-walk, where you hang on ropes and creep along above a hundred foot drop; two separate luge ( "la ligne fée") and toboggan runs; a strange entertainment where they take your bike up to the top of a mountain and then let you ride down real fast (1000 foot descent in 4 minutes); and the farm we stayed at had not only animals and so on but a zip line, a trampoline and wine with the (relatively) inexpensive swiss-french farm dinner.

The Rise and Fall of the Green Fairy Heather McDougal 2008

And here's your head, "she said as she pointed to each matrix of gray lines and gear-work.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999