The entire contraption was mounted on the platform-like deck of an ungainly, spraddle-legged booster that stood squat and silent on the circular launch pad of smoothed lunar concrete.

Zorba remains unfazed and orders a third log, which accelerates down with such violence that it dislodges the entire contraption, destroying everything the men had worked for.

Ropes were passed through loops at the top of the cage and men hauled on the ropes so that the entire contraption was raised towards the roof beams.

The entire contraption was longer than the freighter in which the meeting was taking place.

And they built a race on the Buffalo and there ground their own meal, the entire contraption made of hand-crafted hardwood except for the millstones.

With the first good rain the entire jackleg contraption might collapse around my ears, perhaps in the middle of the night while I lay sleeping.

In the end he had succeeded and had just tied the entire contraption together rather uncomfortably when there was a knock on the door.

Get away,' Howard whispered, and for a moment the entire grotesque, jointed contraption came to a halt.

The entire contraption appeared to weigh five hundred pounds, but the men constructed it swiftly, working in quick coordination, then going on to the next engine.

It took him several precious seconds of staring at the entire contraption to understand.