I've known a derelict up-end and sift her engines out of herself and flicker round the Lower Lanes for three weeks on her forward tanks only.
All three engines are at work, for the sooner we have skated over this thin ice the better.
It struck me as a peculiarity that the laborers at the forge and those who brought fuel to the engine, when they began to draw short breath, positively emitted smoke from their mouth and nostrils.
While he was speaking the bell of the engine rang, and we dashed away after dropping a few passengers, but receiving no new ones.
I walked past our engine and up to the girl, and what do you think?
She stared at me, then at the snorting engine and then burst into tears, which you'll admit is uncommon behaviour for an Indian woman.
No, I think of sinking this
engine in the earth alone, binding it with hoops of wrought iron, and finally surrounding it with a thick mass of masonry of stone and cement.
What, then you don't--' the little voice began, when it was drowned by a shrill scream from the
engine, and everybody jumped up in alarm, Alice among the rest.
Throb, throb, throb, throb, went the engines in the stillness.
Save for the quiver of the engines it was as noiseless as a dream.
An' me on a wunter passage, blowin' a luvin' gale half the time, wuth hurricane force in atweenwhiles, an' hove to sux days, wuth
engines stopped an' bunker coal runnun' short, an' me wuth a mate thot stupid he could no pass a shup's light ot night wi'out callun' me tull the brudge.
For twenty minutes the Coldwater bucked the great seas with her three engines.
All this time it had been impossible to work upon the damaged engines or the gravity-screen generators; but we had a full set of instruments upon the bridge, for Alvarez, after discovering my intentions, had fetched the reserve instruments from his own cabin, where he had hidden them.
There was one man at the rudder, one to tend the
engines, and two burly police-inspectors forward.
The rudder might have been gone for all he knew, the fires out, the
engines broken down, the ship ready to roll over like a corpse.
