time bomb
infernal machine

I felt assured that the infernal machine was the work of the Royalists.

Maybe when they get there, they'll find someone who'll help them build their infernal machines, but it isn't going to be me.

I was just trying to get this infernal machine to start - to make us slightly more comfortable in here.

Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day.

Tomorrow morning, we'll start teaching you how to stay alive inside this infernal machine.

The usual response: slam down the phone and curse the company that made the infernal machine.

The long, low, infernal machine seemed to be pouting most of the way.

The whole house, horrendous in its silence, was like a vast infernal machine.

But the infernal machine was the thing to think of now.