Escapement
in sentence
4 examples of Escapement in a sentence
It was a heavy mass, a low pile of buildings from which rose the silhouette of a factory chimney; occasional gleams appeared from dirty windows, five or six melancholy lanterns were hung outside to frames of blackened wood, which vaguely outlined the profiles of gigantic stages; and from this fantastic apparition, drowned in night and smoke, a single voice arose, the thick, long breathing of a steam
escapement
that could not be seen.
He could explain even the
escapement
of the pump, that thick, long breathing that went on without ceasing, and which seemed to be the monster's congested respiration.
There only remained, unceasingly, the
escapement
of the pump, always breathing with the same thick, long breath, the ogre's breath of which he could now see the grey steam, and which nothing could satiate.
And above these dead buildings, buried in their garment of black dust, there was only heard the
escapement
of the pumping-engine, breathing with its thick, long breath all that was left of the life of the pit, which the water would destroy if that breathing should cease.
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