Lorimer took a covert glance backward over his shoulder towards the lattice window, and saw that the white figure at the spinning-wheel had disappeared.
Thelma's wheel revolved more and more slowly, till at last it stopped altogether.
And she almost laughed as the wheel flew round swiftly under her graceful manipulations.
Holding back a branch of pine, he watched the movements of the girl at her wheel with absorbed fascination.
Surprised, she rose from her seat at the spinning-wheel with a slight air of hauteur.
Thelma amusedly, as she once more set her spinning-wheel in motion.
The old woman listened, her wheel idle; the young woman listened.
English Strickland, who had been fishing, sat on the door-stone and talked to Mother Binning, sitting within with her wheel beside her.
The drone of the wheel no longer reached his ears.
There are two or three persons whom I know who could put a stout shoulder to the wheel of Jamie's prospects.
The wheel turned, the water diamonds dropped in sheets.
A fifth toe for a bird would be as useless as a fifth wheel on a wagon.
He sat upright with his back to them at the wheel forward.
Her brasses and machinery glittered; the engines and steering wheel were set forward, while aft of the cabins and saloon an awning was rigged over the stern.
The quiet shuffle of cards ceased, the wheel of fortune slowed to a clicking stop, and every one looked up in sudden silence.
The roulette wheel whirred, and even at that early hour, cards were being slapped down, faces up, at the stud-poker table.
A roulette wheel was spinning at full clip, its little ivory ball dancing merrily, and at other tables were layouts of faro and various games of chance.
He would break up your pretty clock,' said Yussuf, 'and give every man a broken wheel out of it, and so with all things.
O mighty Potter, to whose steadfast eyes A thousand years lie open as one day, Thy patient hand set firm on life's great wheel This heavy, shapeless clay.
The blackbirds gather, andwheel and fly, The swallows twitter a low "Goodbye!
This, when started by a jerk of the hand, gives the wheel a rotatory movement, which must, according to rule, be from left to right.
He invented the wheel barometer, discussed the application of barometrical indications to meteorological forecasting, suggested a system of optical telegraphy, anticipated E.
The skeleton of an ass was found chained to a ring in the stable, and the tire of a wheel lay in the court-yard.
Andy was bending over the wheel and Tom had begun to turn his, in order to get well out of the way of the insolent, squint-eyed lad and his friends.
Ned shifted his wheel and the young inventor bent over, holding out the rope for the man to grasp.
His hands were tense on the rim of the steering-wheel and he was ready in an instant to reverse the motor as he sat there straining his eyes to see through the curtain of mist that hung over the lake.
At the right of the wheelwas a reversing lever, by which the propeller blades could be set at neutral, or arranged so as to drive the boat backward.
On shot the speedy motor-boat, in and out along the winding shoreline, with the lad in the bow at the steering-wheel peering with eager eyes into every nook and corner where his craft might be hidden.
He put his wheel hard over and then, leaping to his motor, sent it full speed forward.
Tom as he twirled the steering wheel and noted how readily the craft answered her helm.
The steering-wheel shaft went through the forward bulkhead, slantingly, like the wheel of an auto, and was arranged with gasoline and sparking levers on the center post in a similar manner.
Pass by him on a curve, and, as soon as I grab him, put the wheel over so as to get out from under the balloon.
Andy, on the contrary, sat boldly upright at the auto steering wheel of his boat.
Tom was steering from an auxiliary side wheel near the motor, and soon the ARROW had cut off the retreat of the men.
But if they were borne to the rocks maddened in mettle, silently approaching the chariot he followed so far, until he overthrew it and drove it backward, dashing the felly of the wheel against the rock.
In dry summer weather, when we often sat out, the fly-wheel of the well was commonly heard spinning round, and so the sound became associated with those pleasant days.
As soon as ever that is done I must put my shoulder to the wheeland commence at the Geology.
As for himself, he not only deserves the wheel formerly attached to the garments of Jews, but also that otherwheel on which scoundrels have their bones broken.
You may see in an ancient cosmography of Munster in Westphalia a drawing representing some Jews mutilating a child; they are recognisable by the wheel or round of cloth they wear on their clothes in sign of infamy.
It is not to be supposed that yonder coach, which had not a wheel broken, not a horse lamed, would have remained standing still on the road.
Under any circumstances he is a dirty Jew, and never has the wheel as a brand of infamy been exposed on the vestments of a worse or more rabid miscreant.
In response the man ran the wheel over with the utmost quickness, and the galleon, obeying her helm very readily, came around upon a course which, if continued, would certainly bring them into collision with their enemy.
In the darkness one wheel of the van containing King's cage dropped to the hub into a yawning rut.
From the Moon our Earth looks like a large wagon-wheel hanging in the heavens.
It is amusing to learn of the various opinions and superstitions that are held regarding this wagon-wheel world.
The Moon was shaken by subterraneous rumblings, followed by fiery ejections, covering a period of nearly one and one-half wagon-wheel revolutions.
Our Eiffel Tower and Ferris Wheel would be mere playthings compared with the sky-scraping structures that adorn the various parts of this little world.
If he is still insubordinate, he is placed on the revolvingwheel of death until his stubborn will is broken, or he falls fatigued into the jaws of steel.
I knew what my informant meant by "one and one-half wagon-wheel revolutions.
I told them whence I came, pointing to the large wagon-wheel that hung in their heavens.
The axle had broken, and a hindwheel had come off.
And a poor old lady and two orphan grandchildren," grunted Sim, as she tried to turn the wheel of the car.
Sim needed no urging, and going into second she turned thewheel and very carefully started down the narrow dirt road.
He found his wheel on the side-porch, mounted it without troubling to light his lamp or turn up his coat collar, and delighting in the clammy discomfort of the streaming water, pedaled stolidly over the nine miles to his home.
When the boat got across, it went smash into the piles and slid along into the dock, where men hitched it fast with iron hooks and pulled the hooks tight by turning a wheel around.
Neale explained the seriousness of his studies and pointed out that he still rode his wheel on Saturdays.
Neale loafed or rode his wheel (he had a new 24-inch frame bicycle now) at random up to Hudson Heights, and beyond on the Palisades.
He got on his wheel again and went out over the Plank Road as far as Passaic, swung left through Montclair, the Oranges, out to Elizabeth and home through Newark.
Pleading an impending thunder-storm as an excuse (the sky was as a matter of fact very black and lowering), he scorched off on his wheel back to Montclair with the spoils of victory bound to his handle-bars.
