Example Sentences

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The lower box is fitted with a patent self-oiling and adjustable step shown at a, b, c.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Had not nature made a machine, perfect in all its parts, self-oiling, “autotherapeutic,” and all that?

From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown