It is instinct now -- self-acting, deep, and unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Salt Lake, Hicks's self-acting repeaters being kept in the circuit at. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
A self-acting apparatus supplied the three travelers with air to breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
He went to where a self-acting mercurial air - pump was standing on a shelf. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Let the representative be a tongue-bound deputy, and not a free, manly, self-acting agent. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Safeguarding the switchgear against unintentional or self-acting reclosing is an important safety measure. From Wordnik.com. [4. Low-voltage switchgear and distribution systems] Reference
Till 1988, one prototype was realized to demonstrate the physics of the self-acting siphonic heat transfer system. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
This apprehension must belong either to the soul isolated, self-acting, or to soul in conjunction with some other entity. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
There must also be change wheels, studs and quadrant plates, self-acting feed for surfacing and cross slide, and clamping nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Like a waiting-room it is furnished with chairs and tables, and like a cell its door is provided with a strong, self-acting lock. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
"And you use her, for that particular public building or historic scene, as a sort of portable, self-acting reference library," remarked poppa. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
By comparison, the two automatic ( "self-acting") whipping machines patented in 1886 and 1895 for use in sweep powers appear ludricrous and harmless. From Wordnik.com. [5. Draft Animals: All Work and No Play?] Reference
This center together with the nerves and muscles in question form an automatic, or self-acting, mechanism similar in some respects to that of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
He points out that "the old village community was organized and self-acting," and "possessed a body of officers and servants which made it independent of outside help.". From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
It was then a notable place of entertainment consisting of gardens with an orchestra, and the 'Grecian Saloon,' which was furnished with an organ and a 'self-acting piano.'. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
In private practice, leaving out of view the cases that are to be ascribed to the self-acting system of propagation, it would seem that the disease must be far from common. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
If there is any risk of the instrument getting broken from fall of materials or other causes, it may be fitted with an ingenious self-acting apparatus shutting off the supply. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Like so many other inventions, the idea of the self-acting mule was not new. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
The origin of this invention was somewhat similar to that of the self-acting mule. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
Gods, he seems to have the smallest vision for beholding the free, self-acting man in Homer. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
“Mind is a self-acting substance,” says he; “and hence its activity and independence.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference
It is these automatic, self-acting complexes which originate many of the disorders of the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
The eye is a physical but not a self-acting apparatus, and in general it sees only what it seeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
Further self-acting inclines to lower cars to the levels can sometimes be installed to advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference
Really, I must get introduced to her, and show her the self-acting fire-extinguisher I have just invented. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Flames] Reference
Straits, a self-acting record of the daily amount of its contraction and expansion is ingeniously Contrived. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
His cottage was quite a curiosity-shop of models of engines, self-acting planes, and perpetual-motion machines. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
Cartwright, clergyman and poet, invented the self-acting loom to which power might be applied, the series was complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest] Reference
Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
The place was peopled partly by persons of his choice, and partly by a sort of self-acting magic rather difficult to explain. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic City] Reference
“I believe,” he said, “that if self-acting brakes were put upon every carriage, scarcely any accident could take place.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
The system comes complete with self-acting high-temperature cut-out to protect the unit from overheating and users from scalding. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
Mr. Roberts's great success with the self-acting mule led to his being often appealed to for help in the mechanics of manufacturing. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
He had next tried Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
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