engine (n.) Old form(s): Engin, Engyn
weapon, instrument of warfare
Cor V.iv.19[Menenius to Sicinius, of Coriolanus] When he walks, he moves like an engine
Oth III.iii.352[Othello to Iago, of the trappings of war] you mortal engines ... / Farewell!
TC I.iii.208[Ulysses to all, of a battering-ram] the great swing and rudeness of his poise, / They place before his hand that made the engine
TC II.iii.133[Agamemnon to Patroclus, of Achilles] We'll ... let him, like an engine / Not portable, lie under this report
Tem II.i.164[Gonzalo to Alonso, of the imaginary commonwealth] Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine / Would I not have
Tit V.iii.85[Marcus to Lucius] who hath brought the fatal engine in / That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound
TNK V.iii.42[Emilia to herself, of Arcite] his eye / Is like an engine bent
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