Which preposition to use with locomotion
The shorter cilium vibrates actively, and effects the locomotion of the organism, while the other trails behind; the whole body rolling on its axis with its pointed end forwards.
And finally, it is a great thing for a population with such limited means of conveyance that the bamboo is to be found in such abundance in all kinds of localities and of all dimensions, from a few millimeters to ten or fifteen centimeters in diameter, even sometimes to twice this amount; and that, on account of its unsurpassed floating power, it is pre-eminently fitted for locomotion in a country poor in roads but rich in watercourses.
And yet his life, limbs, property, reputation, conscience, all his social relations, the disposal of his time, the right of locomotion at pleasure, and of natural liberty in all respects, are just as much protected by law as the Lord Chancellor's.
Steam, as applied to locomotion on sea and land, and to manufactures, has brought about modifications in social and industrial conditions that cannot be exaggerated.
And since there could be nothing more pleasurable in the way of walking than locomotion over the springy grass of the downs, he took, as he had done a hundred times before, the road that led to Falmer.
" It was his first enterprise in locomotion outside the limits of Jim Galway's yard since he had been wounded.
[Locomotion by land.]
The railways, trolleys, and automobile busses are unsatisfactory means of locomotion for sight-seeing.
The common calls of business, and the mere daily locomotion from point to point of an extended city, necessitate a large amount of this simplest exercise.
Locomotion through any new or untried medium is certain to bring with the experiment a dash of elation.
there was more space for locomotion than at the former gatherings at the Palace, where we were wedged in with some four thousand.
He had not that facility of sympathetically combining his own will and that of his horse which comes to men who from their early boyhood are wont to consider horses as objects quite as necessary to locomotion as shoes and stockings.