1 The official was a white-faced unemotional man, who went through his duties in a dull mechanical way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 2 He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
3 Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
4 Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
5 For the rest the place seemed run by mechanical anarchy.
6 It was an almost mechanical confidence in her own powers, and went with a great cheerfulness.
7 Even an organism is bourgeois: so the ideal must be mechanical.
8 We're only cerebrating make-shifts, mechanical and intellectual experiments.
9 But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
10 And the continuity is not Organic, but mechanical.
11 'I'm afraid I know nothing at all about these mechanical things, Sir Clifford,' he said calmly.
12 The next day was passed in mere mechanical deeds of preparation, both the women being anxious to immerse themselves in these to escape the emotional aspect of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 13 The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away.
14 So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry.
15 His ideas began to grow confused once more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL