He reminded himself once more that, despite her body's perfectly human appearance, she was really a remarkably clever machine.

Those old crocodiles had clever machines to do all the work for them, my father tells me.

Even the clever machines could not keep his body functioning for long.

And we thought that was a frightfully clever machine when it first arrived.

Only clever machines can release me from this stifling prison.

In short, the clever machine supplants fallible human judgment and won't let you do anything wrong.

A clever machine, perhaps, except the Googles had no machines at all.

Now that we have all these clever machines to do our living for us, servants are no longer necessary.

He'd been wanting a power ski, one of those clever machines that made it possible to water-ski without a boat.

"This is not a clever machine if that is its best observation."