infernal machine

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District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez included dueling pistols, muskets, trick “cane guns” and a custom-made instrument of mass murder known as “the infernal machine.”

From New York Times

The brilliant “elephant,” lumbering and impressive like its African namesake, is an infernal machine.

From Los Angeles Times

Aycock’s strangely infernal machine upends historical associations between weaving and delicate women’s work, inserting monumental sculpture into the postindustrial dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times

The only way to escape is to run faster than the infernal machine forces those stuck on it — but most Americans lack the strength and endurance to do so.

From Salon

This too is an example of the multidisciplinary French writer’s “infernal machines” of fortune and doom that populate his plays and overrun our sense of purpose.

From Los Angeles Times