If ever they should turn me out, When I have better grown, Now hang me, but I mean to have A treadmill of my own!
Here are developed a thousand tendencies which would never find expression in the narrow treadmill of labor alone.
There is another class of training-ships, which owe their existence to benevolence, and deserve every encouragement--those for rescuing our street waifs from thetreadmill and prison.
Even such elaborately modified implements as the treadmill and the rowboat are operated on the principle of the lever.
His wife shoos him on, from ten thousand a year to twenty thousand a year, on and on, in an enclosed treadmill that hasn't any windows.
Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off.
Unheeded let the newsboy call, Aside the ledger lay The world will keep its treadmill step Though we fall out to-day.
Why hadn't he informed her that in attempting to escape from the treadmill in which he had placed her, in seeking happiness, she had been courting destruction?
That there is no use in lifting people out of the treadmill --and removing the terror of poverty unless you can give them something more--than I have got.
The Flying Dutchman, one of the cars devised to furnish motive power, provided for the horse or mule a treadmill which would revolve the wheels and make the distance of twelve miles in about an hour and a quarter.
Sometimes they would fix a treadmill inside the car; two horses would patiently propel the caravan, the seats for passengers being arranged on either side.
A treadmill was sent for from England some time ago, but after costing the country a large sum, strange to say, no use is made of it.
The convict prison, also on the top of the island, was virtually the barracks for 900 labourers, who were more profitably employed than in walking a treadmill or picking oakum.
They have no Sunday on which they can lay aside the eternal round of work, and forget for one day that life is a treadmill which never stops its grinding.
There he found that the treadmill was one of the most uncomfortable vanities he had ever yet encountered; and the redness of his nose was considerably subdued by the prison skilly.
The folk who work the treadmill leave few records behind them.
With the lash of my need I had whipped myself like a flagellant to the daily grind until custom had given it the ungrateful familiarity that the treadmillmust have for the mule.
Chloë clapped her little hands, steadied her water-pot, and sprang up on the staging of the treadmill beside Mago.
Two men stood on the treadmill beside the large-bucketed wheel, and as they continued their endless walk the water dashed up into the trough and went splashing down the ditches into the thirsty gardens.
But all four persons at thetreadmill had fixed their eyes on the other conveyance.
They mistook their early poetry for a metaphysical revelation, and their philosophy was condemned to turn in the most dreary treadmill of commentaries and homilies, without one ray of criticism, or any revision of first principles.
They wish to harness thought like a waterfall, or like the blind Samson, to work for them night and day, in the treadmill of their interests or of their orthodoxy.
The way to learn to write is by writing; not just by the dreary treadmill of practicing upon formal "compositions," but by having something to write that one cares to express.
The treadmill is a horrible punishment: it is too bad even for those that are really rogues and vagabonds.
And this excellent specimen of the 'Great unpaid' committed me forthwith to the treadmill for one month as a rogue and vagabond.
These are delicate cases to deal with, Mr. Teynham; but I need scarcely inform you that the treadmill is not for the aristocracy.
I used to think he behaved very harshly in this respect, as the poor wretch whom he thus got sent to the treadmill had most probably paid for the barrow over and over again.
The next thing I did was to break into the house of the very justice who had sentenced me to the treadmill for eating a raw turnip; and I feasted jovially upon the cold fowl and ham which I found in his larder.
It is pathetic to think that these good creatures have been robbed of the one thing which gave color to their lives and lifted them above the dreary treadmill of duty for duty's sake.
As motive power for the churn and separator, a two-sheep-power treadmill has proved entirely satisfactory.
He shoved the nose of the ship down, the giants working eagerly at their treadmill now, as if they realized they had been caught loafing on the job and were trying to make amends.
Then he opened the switches, and grunting with relief, the giants laid themselves down on their treadmill and promptly went to sleep.
Behind the atomics were the Kruchek drivers, twin brawny giants chained to the treadmill they pushed through the skies.
Her life went on in a sort of treadmill existence; and until the coming of Inez Catheron nothing had occurred to disturb it.
Sir PETER henceforth stands sentinel at the gate of death, and any hungry pauper who shall recklessly attempt to touch the knocker, will be sentenced to "the treadmill for a month as a rogue and vagabond!
I shall not encourage attempts of the kind, but shall punish them; and I sentence you to the treadmill for a month, as a rogue and vagabond.
Nor does this treadmill round fill a few months only of her life.
As soon as they have settled themselves at the Bristol or the Rhin begins the endless treadmill of leaving cards on all the people just seen at home, and whom they will meet again in a couple of months at Newport or Bar Harbor.
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