The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished.
Its huge multiple eyes stared with machinelike preoccupation at the world.
The only fault to find with these garments is their machinelike cut.
Zola was never a rapid writer, and seems to have regulated his literary production with machinelike uniformity.
Only for a moment was the machinelike precision of the English class broken.