Fast communications were made by runners; even the policeman with a bicycle of the modern urban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination.

The watchman led the way to the bicycle room.

I left my bicycle in the village and hope to find it still there.

It's nearly new, you know, and cost a heap," Frank remarked, as he dove under the stoop, to presently appear dragging the other bicycle.

And, indeed, a bicycle was found close by, with some parts of it damaged, as if it had been run at full speed against a rock, sending the rider ten feet away, where he landed on his head and was knocked out.

The distance to Brussels was about fifty miles, which, as it was impossible for a civilian to hire a bicycle, motor-car, or cart, I must cover on foot, making twenty-five miles a day.

After three days a German soldier who did not own a bicycle was poor indeed.

Any one on a bicycle outside the city was arrested, so the only way to get messages through was by going on foot to Ostend or Holland, or by an automobile for which the German authorities had given a special pass.

Leaning against doorway is a safety bicycle.

Perkins is clad in bicycle garb.

I'm taking up the bicycle.

To have a bicycle come between man and wife is a pretty hard fate, I thinkfor the one who doesn't ride.

For all I know, my beloved Emma may now be coasting down Murray Hill escorted by some bicycle club from Jersey City.

[Bicycle bells are heard ringing without.

Nothing like a dinner coat for a bicycle ride.

the front wheel collapses, hind wheel flies up and hits you in the neck, handle-bar turns just in time to stab you in the chest; and there you are, miles from home, a physical, moral, bicycle wreck.

She's not a bicycle.

Well, it seems to me that a man with a wife in jail needn't be too stuck up to ride a bicycle.

HARVEY, ALICE. Bicycle commandos.

So if you could have seen the road, just outside of Couilly, Thursday morning, just after nine, you would have seen a Southern girl sitting in a high cart facing east, and an elderly lady in a donkey cart facing west, and the two of them watching the road ahead for the coming of a bicycle pedalled by a gendarme with a gun on his back, as they talked like magpies.

Consult Hill's "Foundations of Rhetoric," pp. 27-29: Omnibus, succotash, welkin, ere, née, depôt, veto, function (in the sense of social entertainment), to pan out, twain, on the docket, kine, gerrymander, carven, caucus, steed, to coast (on sled or bicycle), posted (informed), to watch out, right (very).

3. I had to laugh at John (John's) riding a bicycle.

Anybody wishing to sell bicycle will please call at No. 267.

Have you ever on a bicycle? RISE, RAISE.

He is learning me to ride a bicycle.