Mr. Watt — the eponymous watt not yet existing — called this unit of energy “1 horse-power.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Such innovations are critical for Intel as the Atom processor is still high horse-power and that's often not what the market needs if you look at specific users, says Ramamoorthy. ❋ Seema Singh (2011)
Car, truck, lorry, bike; whatever the vehicle, whatever the horse-power, it was more than a dog and so more than enough. ❋ Gill Hoffs (2011)
"Four thousand horse-power and forty-five miles an hour," the engineer repeated, grinning good-naturedly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Four thousand horse-power and forty-five miles an hour, though you wouldn't think it," he concluded proudly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A thousand miles beyond the last mission station toiled her engineers and spies, clad as coolies, under the guise of itinerant merchants or proselytizing Buddhist priests, noting down the horse-power of every waterfall, the likely sites for factories, the heights of mountains and passes, the strategic advantages and weaknesses, the wealth of the farming valleys, the number of bullocks in a district or the number of labourers that could be collected by forced levies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was the most expensive machine in the county, yet he did not care to flaunt its price or horse-power in a red flare across the landscape, which also was mostly his, from the sand dunes and the everlasting beat of the Pacific breakers, across the fat bottomlands and upland pastures, to the far summits clad with redwood forest and wreathed in fog and cloud. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Here are the numbers: 510 break horse-power, 420lbs of torque and 0-60 in 4.2 seconds ... this machine is no ordinary car. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Does your mom prefer horse-energy to horse-power for automobile engines, or joules to watts for light bulbs? ❋ EliRabett (2010)
Her high horse-power chutzpah always lifted my spirits and thats what she did now. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)
At the present time, for example, the mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five hundred horse-power. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It began, with its unit of horse-power, by stating machines in terms of vital energy, and it will end by stating the energy of a man in terms of a machine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The generator specs called for three 5000 horse-power, two-phase generators, 2200 volts, 250 rpm, complete with switchboard and auxiliaries. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She was of 1000 horse-power, with 81-inch cylinders, and a stroke of 12 feet. ❋ Unknown (2007)
bud: i got 10 horse power last night when i was banging [nicks] girl
[jr]: [no shit] dawg, i had no idea you could get horse power from his girl. ❋ Horsepowerking (2009)
