engineries

Updated: August 31, 2025

Danger lurks and is bound to come with the inevitable reaction. The levity of the men is recruited by the folly of the women. The leaders of feminism would abolish sex. To what end? The pessimist answers what easier than the demolition of a sexless world gone entirely mad? How simple the engineries of destruction.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry (Volume 1): An Autobiography

Danger lurks and is bound to come with the inevitable reaction. The levity of the men is recruited by the folly of the women. The leaders of feminism would abolish sex. To what end? The pessimist answers what easier than the demolition of a sexless world gone entirely mad? How simple the engineries of destruction.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry, Complete: An Autobiography

Lincoln had been elected President in 1860, distinctively as a Republican. In 1864, however, the conditions had changed. The war had been in progress some three years, during which the insurgents had illustrated a measure of courage, endurance, and a command of the engineries of successful warfare that had not been anticipated by the people of the North.

Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross - History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868