It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the
motive power to the mad pace.
There remained, then, only two possible solutions of the question, which created two distinct parties: on one side, those who were for a monster of colossal strength; on the other, those who were for a submarine vessel of enormous
motive power.
We would have to discover a
motive power of extraordinary force, and almost impossible lightness of machinery.
That my
motive power is hate, I do not attempt to conceal.
When the account of the railway and shipping accidents has been completed, it will furnish grim reading, although there is evidence to show that in the vast majority of cases the drivers of trains and engineers of steamers succeeded in shutting off their
motive power before succumbing to the poison.
But about that time I noticed that the
motive power had taken to standing on one leg, and I found that there was something the matter with the other one; so I stocked the business and unloaded, taking Sir Bors de Ganis into camp financially along with certain of his friends; for the works stopped within a year, and the good saint got him to his rest.
The
motive power of the process of natural selection having been economy of wax; that individual swarm which wasted least honey in the secretion of wax, having succeeded best, and having transmitted by inheritance its newly acquired economical instinct to new swarms, which in their turn will have had the best chance of succeeding in the struggle for existence.
The indolent grace of all her movements had its
motive power in an almost masculine firmness of action and profusion of physical resource.
You know as well as I do that the only
motive power which can do that is--money.
A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the
motive power.
Amongst these would-be fugitives, Jos remarked the Lady Bareacres and her daughter, who sate in their carriage in the porte-cochere of their hotel, all their imperials packed, and the only drawback to whose flight was the same want of
motive power which kept Jos stationary.
At first, after the loss of the
motive power, the tiller had been thor oughly secured by lashings.
motive power - the power or ability to move