Wheels

Examples

• The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But the wheels had hard tires, the roads and many of the streets were not smooth, the vehicle got the name of the bone-breaker and its use ceased. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is something which makes your body move, as the spring made the wheels go in my watch when I showed it to you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner--an old Crimean man of excellent character. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I cut brush and Aymo and Piani dug out in front and between the wheels. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Subsequent changes involved the rotating of the cylinder instead of the wheels and many modifications in the form of the wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The machine he built looked like an ordinary stage-coach on four wheels. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The wheels only pulled sideways against the ruts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Down through these, from the third floor, come the wheels, with the tires mounted and inflated to the proper pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Symington’s boat of 1788 (Patrick Miller’s pleasure boat) had side paddle wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In his new engine, the Samson, he adopted the plan of coupling the fore and rear wheels of the engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The cutter was driven by a pitman from a crank shaft operated through gear wheels from the main drive wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The wheels only dug in deeper. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So many wheels to count and consider and calculate! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The chassis are put in the other end of the car, the first one being carried in, minus the wheels, and placed in a diagonal position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After the water has done its work on the wheels it falls into a tunnel and is carried back to the river below the falls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Here is also a chain elevator, which raises the wheels out of the freight cars to a runaway on which they travel by gravity to the third floor of the main factory. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before I could say a word, the crash of carriage-wheels outside struck in, and stopped me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• May the wheels of their chariots be taken off, said the Jew, like those of the host of Pharaoh, that they may drive heavily! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The dull, rumbling sound of wheels was heard on the pavement in the yard. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Come the roll of wheels and a violent ringing at the bell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These wheels were smooth, as Stephenson was convinced that smooth wheels would run properly on an edge-rail. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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