Above these were masses which, bike the carboniferous strata of Earth, recalled the previous existence of a richer but less highly organised form of vegetation than at present exists anywhere upon the surface.

And as I was about to do so, while I was in the very act of summoning up all my eloquence to protest that I didn't know how to ride a bike and couldn't possibly learn in the brief time at my disposal, I'm dashed if the man didn't go and nip me in the bud.

"I haven't ridden nine miles on a push-bike to listen to you trying to be funny.

[Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle &c 272; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters. traveler &c 268. depot

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I'd like to prophesy that you'll find the bike somewhere off the road a mile or two away, where the fellow pitched it when he concluded to make a sneak back to town.

"I surely hope to, and recover my poor bike in the bargain.

I'LL UPSET HIS BIKE, AND THEN"

She rode her bike into town and dropped the letter through the slot inside the post office.

She's got a boyfriend with a bike.

" "There's my cross country skis and my bike . . .

When I was in fifth grade Billy powered his bike up Church Hill (black Stetson, yellow kerchief).

That all who wander down the pike In cart or car, on foot or bike, Or male or female, young or old, Are much alikeare much alike.

He handed the bike to a companion and slunk into the crowd when he saw me.

"Well, anyway, we kep' right on and passed that stone lion out there and went right through the gates, the boys all marchin' strong and the motor-bike makin' one hell of a noise aft.

But Reilly created a diversion by startin' up the motor-bike, and it back-fired like a buncha rookies tryin' to fire a volley.

She said: "You go down on the ' L.' I'll bike.

Yes, on a bike.

Bike for curtain, push for front door.

I was only having a dress-rehearsal on my own account, Bob. Bike bell, curtain.

Bike-ways (101 things to do with a bike)

Bike-ways (101 things to do with a bike)

"Good for you, Hiram!" exclaimed Ernest Thompson, the bike scout, who was acting as a patrol on the course.

I could ride back on the cars and take a whole trunk full of nice things to Barney,clothes, and candy, and a swell watch and chain, and a bustin' beauty of a bike.