Toys for the playground should be provideda sand-heap, a seesaw, a substantial wheel-barrow, hoops, balls, reins and perhaps skipping-ropes.

By the time the second picture was completed Patsy had received permission to leave her room, which she did in Aunt Jane's second-best wheel chair.

Barnett ran to the wheel house with Trendon at his heels.

The length of the wheel base of this engine is 12 feet 8-1/2 inches.

He got a tractor to haul six unladen lorries, and with all the vehicles using their own power the tractor managed to pull them through to Beersheba, leaving behind some wheel tracks with a hard foundation.

One of the most interesting, and not the least important, of those practical discussions which have arisen since the establishment of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, has been in regard to the relative merits and lightness of draught of the Scottish swing-ploughs, and of certain of the wheel-ploughs made and extensively used, especially in the southern counties.

This remarkable characteristic of Constantinople is owing to the very few wheel-carriages employed in the city.

V. be inverted &c; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle.

His opinion was that it might be navigable for small stern-wheel steamers for many miles.

The governor, it will be seen, consists substantially of two heavy balls attached to arms fixed upon an upright shaft, which is kept in revolution by means of a cord driven by a pulley on the fly wheel shaft.

Never did her wheel spin so blithely since her husband was taken from her side, as when she put the first lint upon the rock for his college sarks.

The wheel feed was originally much used for cloth sewing machines, especially in Singer's system.

"The passenger had a quantity of luggage, all marked F.S., and he directed James Buckland to place it all upon a four-wheel cab, with the exception of a small hand-bag, which he carried himself.

Then the train moved out, gathering speed with each added wheel-turn.

This irritates the teamster, and he is compelled to run up and catch the wheel-mules by the head, to make them stop, so that he can lock his wheels.

Again the leaders swung sidewise before the lashing of a thousand lariats of ice and bunched against the wheel-horses.

A.The engines of a geared oscillating engine are similar to the paddle wheel engines (figs.

The New England wife-mother was the one little jeweled pivot on which all the wheel work of the family moved.

Rudely and imperfectly harnessed, at first, it still made the great wheel revolve, and men talked about making it a great motor for mechanical purposes.

The tracks of the wheel rims engaged entirely his sulky, lowering gaze.

The next moment he rose to the surface with arms extended, thrashing the water like the paddles of a side-wheel steamboat, and making a noise not unlike the first attempt of a young mule to bray.

" "I expect it's pretty near 's important t' git the right wheel dogs as 'tis a leader, ain't it, George?

I once measured the distance between the wheel ruts of one of their waggons to be twenty feet, and when the house was upon the waggon, it spread beyond the wheels at least five feet on each side.

The wind wheel is of the rosette type, built without any joints, which gives it the name "solid wheel," in contradistinction to wheels made with loose sections or fans hinged to the arms or spokes, and known as "section wheel mills.

Wheel-roads were no commoner a feature in Greece than railways are here, and such stretches as had been constructed had often never come into use, because they had just failed to reach their goal or were still waiting for their bridges, so that they were simply falling into decay and converting the outlay of capital upon them into a dead loss.