A little attention will yet avert the failure which threatens your riding-schools of velocipedes and carnivorous animals.
But progress is very inconsiderate when it attempts to substitute velocipedes and wild beasts for the old hobby-horses.
He had seen velocipedes with two wheels, the waiter said, but never one with three.
He too had a machine, he said, but had never heard of velocipedes with three wheels.
It is a naively drawn lithograph representing a trial of velocipedes in the Luxembourg Garden, at Paris, in 1818.
It will be seen that in 1818 velocipedes were made of wood and were provided with two wheels--one in front, and the other behind.
Their fame was evanescent, however, and for forty years thereafter little or no attention was paid to this means of locomotion, except in the construction of children's carriages and velocipedes having three or more wheels.
Nearly 5,000 patents have been granted on velocipedes and bicycles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "velocipedes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
