Vespasian then set the engines for throwing stones and darts round about the city.
A dun herd of armoured cars stood under the trees in the court-yard, engines going.
Abaft the conning-tower were the engines, a switchboard, and finally the berths of the engine-room staff.
Next to these came the mules that carried the engines for sieges, and the other warlike machines of that nature.
But only for a short time; the engines had been going astern all the time and presently a slight movement became apparent.
Then with a jerk the monoplane flattened out and came like a skimming bird to the surface of the water; her engines stopped.
Indeed, it seemed a mistake not to have brought down engines with him; he could then have taken the town, there being no one to defend it.
It is said that in the world, in 1870, three and one half million horse-power was furnished by stationary engines, ten millions by locomotives.
I asked one of the waiters concerning the boat itself, and was taken to see the engineer, and went down to look at the engines, and saw the captain.
When she went to her foul steerage bunk at last, between the clashing engines, it was not to sleep, but only to wait for the morning, and, waiting, grieve.