infernal machine
Example Sentences
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“The infernal machine was a 17th-century barrel bomb used in sieges,” wrote Jonathan North, the author of “Killing Napoleon: The Plot to Blow Up Bonaparte,” in an email to Answer Man.
From Washington Post
But Klein isn’t that wild and extravagant; “Resolving Hedda” is more like an engineering project, an experiment to see whether the doomed Hedda can escape Ibsen’s infernal machine.
From Washington Post
He needs others to work the levers of his infernal machine.
From Salon
“A lot of them are scared to death by the whole idea, by the infernal machine,” she told me.
From New York Times
The infernal machine - whether a land mine, a bomb or a shell, or gas, has existed in war since, at a minimum, the invention of gunpowder.
From New York Times
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