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Hence, because many millions of words have failed to say all that is to be said, Napoleon continues, and will long continue, to make the ink flow, the typewriters clatter and the printing-presses hum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sure such as these have not types and printing-presses!

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

These songs poured continually from the printing-presses of the Frondeurs, who thought, and perhaps rightly, that an ink-bottle could work more harm than a cannon.

From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Hayens, Herbert

There were two or three printing-presses in the room, only one of which was going.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

Florence, Venice, Basel, and Paris groaned with printing-presses.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter