A Biography of a Human: "Comfort for a New Day"
On the top were wolven guards in brocade uniforms who patrolled and moved like mechanical clockworks. this was the exit to the noble district, which at night was closed off for curfew.
The Revenge
Almost like clockwork, my mom entered my room. "rise 'n shine sleepy head!" she said, giving me a hug and a kiss on the cheek before leaving. wiping the crud out of my eyes i walked over and slipped on my basketball shirt and sweat pants.
Day 12
"sir, like clockwork sir!" thallin reported. "good, continue with that." "sir!" turning she started yelling orders at triple the rate she had been, incised to maintain the schedule.
Welcoming A New Roommate, Part I
clockwork. he never could keep a roommate for longer than a semester. sometimes roommates moved out in less than a semester. he knew jess would move out, but he isn't sure if he was moving into rezz's building or possibly rezz's room.
Alien Dreams
Time was meaningless and meaningful - for it was as clockwork, when there was a small scrape of stone and fresh meat was shoved through and closed down - leaving me again in the darkness and silence.
Alexander's Accounts - Part 16
- “sex on the motorway" is a reference to a clockwork orange's ?????? (moloko; this is one of those words where the letters look similar. ? is from greek pi, so it's a “pi", and ?
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 53
That strange crackly noise, like dying embers, was the sporadic sound of bones snapping and clockwork jaws closing shut, cleaving through muscle and tendon one agonisingly slow increment at a time.
Fuzzy Night Profitable Day
The paused scene showed a lot of bronze or copper, some wood, and what looked like various bits of clockwork. "interesting," she said softly, casting a glance over to the tiger, "what's it about?"
Endless Struggle: Chapter 1 SatAm fanfic
Like clockwork a spybot flies into the area and takes a picture of the downed swatbot. hakuzo lines up on the smaller target and takes another shot. the spybot is sent flying off into a nearby wall.
Zendao Bios (unfinished novel idea)
In a stroke of genius, xiang's father called upon a technique that his father had taught him as an apprentice, and constructed a series of clockwork prostheses to replace his son's missing and mutilated limbs.
Hurricane Kim Chapter 5
"maybe the clockwork doesn't clock work?" "shaddap!"
Demiverse: Relics
Not the simple things average people used, nor the elaborate clockwork masterpieces made by and for the nobility, but something altogether different and advanced beyond my comprehension. i continued onward, past room after room of wonders.