| If you doubt the power of the aesthetics of clockwork, look at the prices in a smart watchmaker's shop. |
| You couldn't always expect things to go smoothly like clockwork, but he did. |
| Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio. |
| This was the age of reason and enlightenment where science was fitting the heavens into the clockwork precision of mechanical, mathematical laws. |
| Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds. |
| A mouse runs up the side of a sack like a clockwork toy, then suddenly stops dead and watches me with his little eyes like tiny jet beads. |
