"Escapement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being "less known",—that knowledge of form which sustains the artist like a crutch in his examination of the model, and which as it were dictates to the eye what it must see. So the ballet girl was Degas' escapement from the thraldom of common knowledge. The ballet girl was virgin soil. In her meagre thwarted forms application could freely be made of the supple incisive drawing which bends to and flows with the character—that drawing of which Ingres was the supreme patron, and of which ...
— Modern Painting • George Moore
... human being at all!" cried Ardan, admiringly. "He is a repeating chronometer, horizontal escapement, London-made ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne
... cold, isochronism, enlarging jewels, or changing angles of pallet stones, etc., etc., all of which I do as necessity demands, as well as the care of striking watches, fly backs, etc., which, too, I make a specialty of, and of chronometer escapement watches, which would take more space than I feel disposed to ask you to give ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various
... 'Gyp' for some little time was a portion of his stern quarters, with his little butt-end of a tail wagging away at high- pressure speed, just like the escapement of a clock from which the pendulum has been temporarily taken, so that it has for the moment no check ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... facile doctrine do not move him. In his irony there is a disdain which plays about even the ironist himself. Dreiser is a product of far different forces and traditions, and is capable of no such escapement. Struggle as he may, and fume and protest as he may, he can no more shake off the chains of his intellectual and cultural heritage than he can change the shape of his nose. What that heritage is you ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken |
