One other thing Thaen refused to handle, and that was the wonderfully delicate apparatus that would control the half-mad Flames of the projector.
It also was used extensively for pianofortes, for astronomical and surveying instruments and for the cases of all sorts of delicate apparatus, such as scales, microscopes, and microtomes.
It was a large wooden crate that had contained a piece of delicate apparatus that his father had ordered for the labora- tory.
As he pushed the third and fourth fingers apart, forming a traditional Vulcan hand sign, he heard a delicate apparatus click at the junction of the two digits.
It was a foregone conclusion that the delicate apparatus itself would not survive the holocaust.
One by one the last of the crimson-robed figures were hunted down, and a thousand improvised hammers beat and pounded among the delicate apparatus.
His heart pounds so furiously that the medic, registering alarm on its delicate sensing apparatus, starts toward him.
Strangely no such stench assailed his delicate nasal apparatus, rather a soft yet strangely haunting odour, one that Norman could not quite put a name or place to.
The electrical machinery upon which he was now dependent recoiled from his estranged body, which made his dependence still deeper as the delicate apparatuses broke down one by one.
Or perhaps the delicate, mandibular sensory apparatus of the bees detected something foreign.