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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word steam-engine? Here are some examples.
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Let us suppose ourselves to be in a building in which a steam-engine is at work. |
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| Yet the dynamo, next to the steam-engine, was the most familiar of exhibits. |
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| Watt had perfected, with the aid of Murdoch, both the pumping-engine and the rotative steam-engine for application to mills. |
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| He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine. |
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| A few deep breaths and he was himself again, shaken and with a heart beating like a steam-engine, but able at least to talk intelligently. |
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| The steam-engine is said to be a very imperfect machine which wastes more power than it utilises. |
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| The chief application of the eccentric is in the steam-engine, where it is used for working the valve gear. |
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| At first the water-wheel was used to drive the power-loom but later the steam-engine was made to do this work. |
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| Whether they recombine in the furnace of the steam-engine or in the animal body, the origin of the power they produce is the same. |
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| They might as well have tried to work a steam-engine on moral reasons. |
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| A steam-engine and a steel-filing might equally well be compared together. |
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| Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. |
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| I thought I was lazy, but I am a steam-engine compared to a Constantinople dog. |
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| They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam-engine, only smaller. |
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| If God be not, then steam-engine and flower are in the same category. |
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| It was after this time that savery became the inventor of a steam-engine. |
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| I never before or since heard language enounced with such steam-engine haste. |
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| This is said of a steam-engine if reversed, to propel the vessel astern. |
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