Sentence examples for steam drilling from inspiring English sources

One of my favorite childhood stories (and associated folk songs) was that of John Henry, who defeated the steam drilling machine.

But John Henry died from racing that steam drill.

The stake, buried deep in the ice, had been installed years before, with a steam drill.

Maybe Bordone was a lone John Henry in a world where the steam drills were about to come online.

According to legend, he beat the new machine-age steam drill in a contest of speed, only to fall dead.

In addition, Henry worked on the team assigned to drill the Lewis Tunnel in West Virginia, where steam drills were put to the test against workers with hammers.

Like whether it would have been more manly of our hero to forgo his contest with the steam drill and live to see his beloved Polly Ann another day.

"It's like that old story about John Henry," Chick Donohue explained, recalling the fabled contest between man and machine after the invention of the steam drill.

Before his programming skills were up to snuff, Mr. Danziger impersonated John Henry, the mythical steel-driving man who out-hammered the railroads' newfangled steam drill.

He compares them to "John Henry, pitted against that steam drill there at the Big Bend Tunnel on the C&O line".

His defeat sent shivers through much of the Luddite world, which saw it as the intellectual equivalent of John Henry's valiant but hopeless struggle against a steam drill.