He even rigs up an elaborate machine that allows him to make a grand entrance by rising from the midst of a swimming pool.

He uses his time in jail to learn how to construct elaborate machines.

It was their biggest weapon against the ruling party's elaborate and very expensive political machine, which reaches into the tiniest Japanese villages.

He creates elaborate machines which bring down a bolt of lightning that revives the dog.

It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.

Basic models were hand-cranked while more elaborate machines used an electric motor.

Helena said, "But why such an elaborate machine?

In the middle was a large platform with an elaborate machine on it, constructed of brass and glass pipes.

They were like parts of a single elaborate machine, he thought, gazing at the teeming orange multitudes.