Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 m or more across.

By a mechanical contrivance the throne followed Solomon wherever he wished to go.

The body, in a manner of speaking, is a mechanical contrivance.

All pre-twentieth-century precursors had in common that they were mechanical contrivances.

All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in.

The last item on the desktop was a mechanical contrivance.

But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that's... against Nature.

Have you one of those mechanical contrivances the Federation uses?

He had already given evidence of possessing an aptitude for mechanical contrivances.

With all its lifelike appearance, the head was no more than a mechanical contrivance wired for sound.