He slid himself out of the maintenance hatchway which he had fashioned into a bunk for himself by disabling some of the noisier machinery in his vicinity and padding it with towels.

Most newer vessels are air conditioned, soundproofed from noisy machinery, and equipped with comfortable living quarters.

For example for note-taking in lectures and seminars, amongst noisy machinery and other background conversations speech input would be difficult, and in quiet environments (for example in libraries) both speech and keyboard input are inappropriate.

Lighter-than-air travel, freed from the noisy machinery of airplanes and helicopters, has always been chic.

It has the screech and vitality of a great city, but the purpose that once moved all this noisy machinery has vanished; the sirens now sound off esthetically, for the sake of the Art Deco patterns they produce.

Thanked the nurses who clattered about with deft hands and noisy machinery, and in absentia thanked the donors of blood type 'O' who had refilled my veins.

"And this principle extends even to the installation on a lower terrace by the co-op of noisy machinery that the board has determined is appropriate for the building."

This was very unpopular with the officers, not least because they were now berthed near the noisy auxiliary machinery while the turbines made the rear of the ship much quieter than they had been in earlier steamships.

As depicted by Mr. Roth (er, Nathan), Seymour comes across as an regular guy - a kind, forbearing man who unexpectedly finds himself chewed up and spit out by the noisy machinery of history.

People holding loud parties or operating noisy machinery will be closely scrutinised by the council's environmental health officers.