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The term “locomotion” has been employed in literature with a rich variety of connotations that reveal both its literal and metaphorical significance. In adventure narratives such as Jules Verne’s works, it often conveys the challenges and innovations of travel—as seen in vivid depictions of physical journeys across land and sea ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In contrast, authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald use it to hint at fleeting impulses and shifts in personal energy ([5]). In the realm of problem-solving and playful inquiry, figures such as Henry Ernest Dudeney transform locomotion into elements of intellectual puzzles, underscoring its systematic and precise nature ([6], [7], [8], [9]). Sociological texts, meanwhile, harness the term to symbolize independence and the inherently human drive to move and evolve ([10], [11]), while even folklore and classical philosophy, as reflected in Plato and Wirt Sikes, imbue locomotion with a sense of mysticism and broader cultural significance ([12], [13], [14]).
  1. Accustomed as I had been to the steam ferry boats of the Elbe, I found the long oars of the boatmen but sorry means of locomotion.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  2. We now had to inaugurate a new kind of locomotion, which would have the advantage of being rapid and not fatiguing.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  3. In this respect oysters are inferior even to mussels, to whom nature has not denied all talent for locomotion.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  4. Our very style of locomotion left in my mind no doubt upon the subject.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  5. Declining further locomotion or further stimulation, Amory left the car and sauntered back along the board walk to the hotel.
    — from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. LOCOMOTION AND SPEED PUZZLES.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  7. Speed and Locomotion Puzzles, 11 .
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  8. Locomotion and Speed Puzzles, 11 .
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  9. 9 Locomotion and Speed Puzzles.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  10. Society is made up of individuals spatially separated, territorially distributed, and capable of independent locomotion.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  11. This capacity of independent locomotion is the basis and the symbol of every other form of independence.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  12. Sometimes visible goblins achieve the work; sometimes the stones themselves possess the power of locomotion.
    — from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
  13. The ever-increasing power of locomotion may join the extremes of earth.
    — from The Republic by Plato
  14. The ever-increasing power of locomotion may join the extremes of earth.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato

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