When the circus had gone and life was drab, he was our tutor in the art of turning cart-wheels and making hand-stands against the door.

[Illustration] Here is arranged a steam-engine, which drives the wheels of the vehicle, and which will of course propel the whole turnout, horse and all, at a great rate of speed.

Some of the omnibuses were on runners, and one or two of the young men of the ministry had taken off the wheels of their light carriages and put them on runners, but one didn't see many real sleighs or sledges, as they call them here.

The thing was arranged in a few moments, and as he left the drawing-room he heard the wheels of De Chauxville's carriage.

Then he bought a quantity of string, and set his wheel to call him up an hour before sunrise.

When her stern went up one saw an indistinct figure holding the wheel.

Each girl carries her spinning-wheel on her shoulder.

" But, leaving wheels and animals out of the question, the free mountaineer with a sack of bread on his shoulders and an ax to cut steps in ice and frozen snow can make his way across the range almost everywhere, and at any time of year when the weather is calm.

Thus said: close following at her heel, With cheerful heart he mounts the wheel.

"I shudder now, as I did then, though eighteen years have rolled their wheels of misery between,shudder, as I look in memory into that room again, and see your father standing in the awful grief that has no voice, see your mother lifting up her words of moaning, up where I so late had watched the feet of stars walking into heaven.

I guess if I can't ride a wheel with one hand, my name isn't Nathan Eddy!"

On the top could be seen the wheels of a truck entangled between the barrels; planks and beams were intermingled.

Wilson drove the team and wagon to the brink of the hill, and following my directions he brought out some extra chains with which we locked both wheels on each side, and then rough-locked them.

As Roy came swinging by he held a small megaphone to his mouth with one hand, while the other gripped the steering wheel tightly.

God knows the law has enough to do without clogging its wheels with innocence.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

"He's got the wheel now, and, with the other two, I'll have good quartermasters.

I bought a prayer-wheel.

My friend Professor Bache makes the occasions the opportunities for working sundry little wheels, pulleys, and levers; the result of all which is that he gets his enormous appropriations of $400,000 out of Congress, every winter, for the maintenance of the United States Coast Survey.

And there was the little steamer, just as Frank had said; why, he could even distinguish Todd Pemberton up in the pilothouse, grasping his wheel and guiding his charge among the shoals that were charted in the northern end of the lake as dangerous, that is, for green hands at the tiller or wheel of a boat propelled by sails, steam or gasolene.

He stopped the balance-wheel which regulated the finances of the country, and introduced no end of commercial disorders, ending in dire disasters.

The grass out there was long and unkempt; roses bloomed on the fence; wistaria, in its deeper green of midsummer, ran riot over the trellis where Clarence had basely dodged his lovely mistress, and, after making a furry pin wheel of himself, had fled through the airhole into Stygian depths.

Think you to finish before the Queen comes? FLAT-FOOT (nodding as she treads the wheel).

but if that Molly 'spects me to grease her wagon wheels for her, she's got hold of the wrong man.

" "He does have the gift of oiling the wheels in either, big or little moments," she thought, as she realized how simple and considerate had been his course from the first.