The spokesin all three windows have the dog-tooth on each side.
The two other rose windows have six spokes instead of eight, the trefoiled arches have foliage, and the inner moulding of the bounding circles is continuously waving.
As yet, however, there was no sign of life even within the vast wheel, with its rims and spokes of light, its centre of shadow.
That town has been likened to the hub of a wheel whosespokes are the roads which lead eastward.
Eight or 10 spokes are drawn from the center to the circumference.
Foxes may run in any direction on the trail, on the spokes or on either of the rims.
The man, Adams, was at the helm, and the spokes flew through his hands as he tottered for a moment, and then fell heavily forward.
Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
He gave the boat full gas, then a couple of spokes of the wheel sheered her off to starboard.
Dorothy grabbed the spokes and Bill hastily slipped into his rubber coat and adjusted the life belt over it.
The wheel was all right--or at least the gearing was,--the wheel itself had only a bit of rim and two spokes on it.
For as in a car the circumference of the wheel is set on the spokes and the spokes on the nave, thus are these objects set on the subjects and the subjects on the prâ/n/a.
Bloody shreds of flesh were sticking to the gun-barrels, and torn limbs and even whole bodies were whirled round and round in the spokes of the wheels.
One very ornamental scheme was probably rejected because of its expense; in it a fine church was to form a central point, with avenues running from it like spokes of a wheel.
The method is briefly as follows: First of all a large five-sided frame is formed; then long threads, which are rather like the spokes of a wheel, are added.
He was almost motionless, except that his bands moved the spokes of the wheel, and his eyes were turned aloft looking at the sails as they filled with the breeze.
Four flights of steps radiated away from the circular door to the hull, like spokes from an axle, all of them leading "down" to the inside surface of the globe.
Twenty feet above, fixed in the air on clear spokes of lucite, the crystal globe that was the sun for this small world gave forth its warming flood of light, sunlight borrowed from the sunlight outside and led in on the lucite spokes.
Which way would you pull the spokes if I told you to put the helm to starboard?
But then her pent-up feelings mastered her; she rocked to and fro, grasping the spokes of the wheel, and I extended my arms just in time to save her from falling.
I called out; and the girl, having cast off the lashing with marvellous quickness, ran the spokes over.
Mate's cry, the Old Man himself wrenching desperately at the spokes of the wheel.
There he made the most of it, and hung gracefully over the spokes with his wrists turned out to show the tattoo marks.
The bo'sun and Martin and Hans took turns of the steering; that was work beyond the rest of us, and the most we could do was to stand by a-lee and bear on the spokes with the helmsman.
At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane; And the whirring of a wheel, Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes are in my brain.
As the earth rolls round, It seems to me a huge Ixion's wheel, Upon whose whirling spokes we are bound fast, And must go with it!
Frank whirled the spokes of the wheel rapidly and brought the Fortuna up to her course, while Harry quickly operated the switches that gave new impetus to the engines.
A whirl of the spokes by the pilot brought the tug on a course away from the motor boat, but the schooner had headway enough so that she came right on.
The rim is 1/8" steel, fastened to spokes with very small rivets.
The spokes are made of dowel rods; these fitting into a hub that can easily be turned out on the lathe.
I had but grasped the spokes of the wheel when I heard a cry, close ahead of us of: "There's a small craft close aboard of us on our larboard beam, sir!
Three spokes of the wheel had been shot away, and it was a wonder to me, as I marked the path of our shot along the torn and splintered deck, that the whole concern had not been destroyed.
Mr Macdougall and the two seamen who were standing on either side of the wheel, clutching hold of the spokes and holding on to them with all their might, shifted it round almost as quickly as the skipper's order was given.
The nearest thing to her was his own arm, the hand of which grasped one of the spokes of the steering wheel.
Arnold now turned a fewspokes of the wheel, and headed the Ariel due east by the compass.
Then he signalled to the wheel-house aft to disconnect the after-wheel, and at the same moment he took hold of the spokes of the forward-wheel in the conning-tower.
I was in no humour for examining the spokesof carriage-wheels; and, if I had been obliged to ride on the tongue, I believe I should have taken it.
