" The Tower of Babel" has action in the restricted sense in which it enters into Mendelssohn's oratorios, and scenic effects which would tax the utmost powers of the modern stage- machinist who might attempt to carry them out. "A Second Book of Operas" by Henry Edward Krehbiel

We wouldn't take any chances with such an expensive machine unless a machinist came along to show us what to do in case of emergency. "Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest" by Lillian Elizabeth Roy Elizabeth Colborne

Set free soon after the revolution, he did not resume his profession, but secured a place as machinist in a theatre on the boulevards. "The Clique of Gold" by Emile Gaboriau

The contest would have been not merely with seven hundred men, but with every machinist in the city. "What Answer?" by Anna E. Dickinson