When Tom was at work, it was like he was an automaton. From LearnThat.org.
Only an automaton wouldn't have noticed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The automaton is all that is left of his previous life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The automaton is one of many built to help Lincoln hit the campaign trail and who subsequently became the sheriff of a small town. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers] Reference
He became a visitor to the "Man with the Rolling Eye," though I believe he used to call my automaton "The Sheik of Baalbec.". From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle] Reference
This year’s homework question was to find an interesting cellular automaton from the rule space of radius 3/2 with two colors. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : Return of the NKS Summer School] Reference
Suddenly, Hillary was no longer the "automaton" with wonkish talk. From Wordnik.com. [Analysis: Obama Assembled A Bill Bradley Coalition In NH ��� And Lost, Too] Reference
JANICE ROGERS BROWN, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT: A judge is not some kind of automaton, or computer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2005] Reference
Yet he hates that old "automaton" tag - he's warmer than that. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
I bought an "automaton" once in April, and I did have a time with it!. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
April, especially if it is an "automaton" one -- the umbrella, I mean, not the April. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
The economists had constructed a kind of automaton which fairly represented the actual working of the machinery. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
"What's an 'automaton'?" said I. "Oh, it's a beautiful arrangement," replied the man, with a touch of enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
The final stages of generating the species name automaton were performed using computational facilities at the Vital-IT (. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
I got to my feet like an automaton, swaying heavily. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
This wonderful automaton singer represents Signorina. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
But lacking originality he lapsed into a mere automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
The albino is an automaton; he is playing a tweed melody. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple and the Fortress] Reference
She obeyed her Pa like an automaton, in her anxiety to do well. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Instead of that, he wheeled like an automaton and retraced his steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
The blind effort which he made to catch it overbalanced the automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
He dressed himself like an automaton, and breakfasted like an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The perfect Poker player sits like an automaton, and his face is a mask. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Madame de Bergenheim obeyed his order with the precision of an automaton. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
During the next twenty-four hours, my existence is that of an automaton merely. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Like an automaton the man stepped forward, and after him paced the white horse. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
He wrote down that she "speaks well," but described her as "a little automaton.". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange World Of Jonbenet] Reference
Oh for machinery! automaton flunkies, requiring only to be wound up and kept oiled!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
An individual who is merely conforming to the customary is no more moral than an automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
She did this with a stolid, heavy step, and mechanically, like an automaton moved by machinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Now he's doing it, though his blog needs brightening up; it reads like it was written by an automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Next Generation] Reference
His eye exacts trained efficiency from thousands; his word is a world event; Wall Street is his automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
When the Tzigana reached him, and nearly ran into him in her slow walk, she stopped suddenly, like an automaton. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Time had ceased to exist for him, as he walked the almost deserted streets of Toul like a flesh-and-blood automaton. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
It has cut the world in twain and treated it as a piece of mechanism and reduced man to the position of an automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
An automaton, informed only with the material life, remained, -- the spirit followed that fleeting figure down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
There is a telescope, a gyroscope and a lobster automaton that looks surrealist but was made in 1590 by Hans Schlottheim. From Wordnik.com. [A Storehouse of Riches] Reference
This daughter is nothing more than an automaton, that has been manufactured by Spalanzani and his friend, the wizard Coppelius. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
At the very end of the book, we find out that the book that we're reading is actually written by an automaton that Hugo invents. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a Picture Book, a Novel, a Movie in Book Form …] Reference
Of course, the real object is to determine whether the subject will see more than he is told, or whether he is a mere automaton. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
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