| 1. | John spoke almost like an automaton himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | The living automaton went through the same motions as before, and again Elder Brown quaffed the fatal mixture. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | They move to their terrible end as automatons move. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |