self moving

How to use self moving in a sentence

• If it were not so, why does one call a horseless carriage 'automobile' instead of 'self-moving carriage'?

  A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho Suyematsu

• His water-clock, self-moving vehicle, and mill, were the wonder of the village; the latter propelled by a living mouse.

  The Uses of Astronomy | Edward Everett

• It was also for Plato the self-moving and the cause of all motion.

  Creative Intelligence | John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen