It is a velocipede as it was first made, without pedals.

Faster and faster it went, the pedals remaining motionless under their feet.

Those faces once painted so brightly would smile, And put out their tongues at my voice; As the pedals were played, they would wag all the while, And the children below would rejoice.

My pedals are broken or gone quite awry, My "keys"you may "note"are now dust; No longer a "swell"not as faint as a sigh While my bellows, good people, are "bust.

It begins in rocky caverns, As a voice that chaunts alone To the pedals of the organ In monotonous undertone; And anon from shelving beaches, And shallow sands beyond, In snow-white robes uprising The ghostly choirs respond.

Play on the soft lute of love, blow the loud trumpet of war, Sing with the high sesquialtro, or, drawing its full diapason, Shake all the air with the grand storm of its pedals and stops.

She plied the pedals with vigor, and he ran alongside or behind, as best he could; she excited, and he out of breath.

Very early I acquired that knack of using the pedals, which makes the piano a sympathetic, singing instrument, quite a different thing from the source of hard or blurred sounds it so generally is.

The bidders were principally men, whose wives, had they been present, would probably have discouraged the bidding, on the score that it was impossible to have that thing in the house, when Jenny's had veneer candle-stands and plush pedals.

He sat down in front of it, and pressed the stiff old pedals.

From Wasserburg, Leopold Mozart writes, "We went up to the organ to amuse ourselves, where I explained the pedals to Wolfgang.

It has 41 stops, 2,133 pipes, four sets of manuals, each manual with a compass of 61 notes; there are 30 pedal notes, 9 double-acting combination pedals; all the metal pipes are 75 per cent pure tin.

In one of these apparatus, designed to be used in the open air (Fig. 1), we find a table, a tent, and a fan combined; but as each part is independent, we can have the table and fan without tent, or the fan and pedals alone without table or tent.

This frame is connected, through two levers, with the pedals upon which one's feet rest.

The motion of the pedals is an alternating one like those of sewing machines; but while in the case of the latter a pressure has to be exerted that soon becomes very tiresome, the motion in Mr. Bozerian's apparatus is so easy that it is only necessary to raise the toes of each foot in succession in order to produce a swing of the fan through the weight alone of the foot that is pressing.

It will be seen that the alternate motion of these pedals must cause a rotation of the pulley in one direction or the other, and that consequently the fan will rise or fall more or less rapidly, and give a quantity of air that varies according to the rapidity with which the toes are moved.

But Elizabeth gave no sign that she could rival Sahwah's prowess with the canoe, and Sahwah, made affable by the knowledge of her own powers, went on graciously, "You could play on the harp, though, and of course I can't," She laid her hand on the gilt frame of the harp that stood at her side, and looked at its wires and pedals respectfully.

(Sits on a chair, with face to back, and works imaginary pedals.)

I've got a splendid pianner, though, with an oleon 'tachment, three pedals, and pearl keyscost eight hundred dollar; and a nice piece of furniture it is, you may believe.

In other words, the keys and pedals were nearly worn out, and could not be much further damaged by unpractised hands and feet.

I pressed the pedals with a hard and cruel tread.

It has also five pedals, disposed as a harp underneath; but none of them make any impression on the sound, except the middle one, which rings a bell.

"Stand up on your pedals and ride fast, and" "Hold on, please do," I shrieked.

He was athletic in his tastes, and given to riding the velocipede of those days, a heavy, bonebreaking machine, moved not by pedals but by thrusting the feet against the ground.

" He cranked the battered car, straddled in over the edge on the driver's side and set his feet against the pedals with the air of a man who had urgent business elsewhere.

A quack who peddles a valuable remedy upon which he may have stumbled, and yet refuses to disclose its ingredients for the benefit of the whole medical fraternity, violates the esprit du corps of the profession, and is by general consent deemed a fit person to be kicked out of it.

As for early peas this morning, it is Pan himself who peddles themdisguised and smirched lest he be caught in the deceptionPan who stamps his foot and shakes the thicketwhose habit is to sing with reedy voice of the green willows that dip in sunny waters.

'Vengents is mine,' says the disappinted offis seeker, and on Election day he peddles split tickets ontil the poles close.

For three days the caravan peddles its wares, selling out the contents of the sacks, and getting good prices.

There's "Ikey," the newsboy, and "Muggsy" who "shines"; There's Beppo who peddles "banan'"; There's A. Lincoln Johnson, whose "Pa" kalsomines

Hark to the bourgeois Huguenot, whose family peddles cloth!" "You coward!

It is cruel in any man, to look narrowly into the faults of an author who peddles a school-book for bread.

Mr. Bowlby peddles proof.

Mr. Bowlby peddles proof.

Connecticut gave him to the world,he peddled first his wares, afterwards, as he declares, his brains; these he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut in the kernel.