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Fahrenheit 451
- He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.†
p. 2.6propelled = caused something to move forward
Definition:
cause to move forward (to push or encourage)