Engines [noun]

But this time, with all his cunning and perspiration, he could not induce another throb in the tired engines.

The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.

Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.

War turns them from making the glittering superfluities of peace to making its grim engines of destruction.

In comparison with the engines now in use, these Americans were very small ones.

The trains were pulled up the incline at the Lickey by powerful stationary engines.

The facility of manufacture and cheapness of those engines caused them to be much used in the mines, and also elsewhere.

There are six engines nearly finished at Coalbrookdale, and seven in a foundry at Bridgenorth.

They may be made both winding and pumping engines at the same time, if so required.

I know where we have removed cylinders and put larger ones on the same nozzles and condensing work, and the engines did good duty.