The charioteers standing on their well-woven cars, urged on their swift horses with loose rein; the jointed cars flew along clattering and the naves of the wheels shrieked loudly.
No doubt it had been thewheels of that dog-cart which they had heard in the distance.
It must have snowed heavily till then, for there was not a trace of all the carriage-wheels on the drive when we went out last night, but our footprints down to the lodge are clear in the snow now.
It had evidently been snowing afresh, for there was not a trace of wheels upon the ground; but it had ceased now.
The wind was so strong that the men had to get out of the carriage, which was a heavy covered-in waggonette, and hold the wheels down to prevent it from being overturned.
The wheels grated on the gravel, and Violet remained where he had left her.
The roll of these carriage-wheels was therefore an event.
In the distance the rattle of wheels sounded more and more distinct.
The gritting ofwheels on the gravel caused Sir John to turn suddenly on his heel, and descending the steps at the end of the terrace, he walked a little distance to meet the approaching carriage.
He remained till the boat cast off her moorings and the paddle-wheels began to churn the water in the narrow slip, then he turned away with a sigh.
A minute or two later the sound of wheels was heard on the grass-grown road.
The seats had been taken out and the wheels taken off, and so the body of the old coach lay on the ground, and four pigs were shut up inside it.
She has never heard the rolling of wheels or the hoof-tread of horses in her streets, through which the fish swim, while the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water.
And there come the folks now," as the rolling ofwheels was heard in the avenue.
So I've let it run on oiled wheels on a thousand rum tracks and doublings.
The wheels rattled as its small owner dragged it uproariously about by means of a string.
The howitzer had thrown itself backward convulsively, and lay with its wheels moving in the air as a squad of men rushed toward it.
The horse clacked swiftly upon the macadam, the wheels hummed, the body of the vehicle wheezed and groaned.
There was a deep sea roar from feet and wheelsgoing ceaselessly.
The wheels hummed on the asphalt, and the coachmen towered in their great sombreros.
And then occasionally one was hurled with wheels in air.
Overhead elevated trains with a shrill grinding of the wheels stopped at the station, which upon its leg-like pillars seemed to resemble some monstrous kind of crab squatting over the street.
It is a vehicle with two wheels and a single horse.
In the crypt is the gorgeous catafalque on which were borne the remains of Wellington at the funeral procession,--the elegant wheels made from cannon captured by him.
While the Scotch element has been eminently conservative, and so a brake on the wheels of a hurried advance, the German element has been doing its work of lifting thought to a higher plane.
The panic to which all bodies of soldiers in strange circumstances are exposed, was increased by the growing difficulty of advance, as the chariot wheels became clogged or the ground more of quicksand.
He turned on the steam--the wheels revolved--then the thing stuck.
Peter placed his wagon with its flange-wheels on the track and pushed it up and down along the rail.
It was found that a team of horses could draw double the load on a railroad that they could if the wheels of the vehicle were on the ground.
The wheels were enormous, some being ten feet in diameter.
He had made the engine, but now he must make a boiler in which to generate the steam to make the wheels go round.
The wheels were made by boring and pinning plank on plank, criss-cross, and then chalking off with a string from the center.
Whereupon both the boys began turning cart-wheels on their feet and hands with marvellous dexterity.
There was a fidgety interval before the big cart drove up to the house, its wheels rending through the gritty mud and its horses steaming as though they had been boiled.
Cab-wheels squirting mud at you all along the street, eh?
He carried the mail to Stockville and Medicine, which were newly established postoffices in the interior to the north, and his conveyance was the hind wheels of an ordinary wagon, to which he had fashioned a pair of thills.
Their inveterate suspicion of white kindness, too, joined to their ignorance, so clog the wheels of any system of charity like this of superintendence that for this reason alone I think it should cease.
At the pace they were going, to overtake them was impossible, though we urged our nag to its utmost speed, and the wheels ploughed swiftly through the dry sand.
Carriage, wheels would give her the first intimation of it.
The people were read, penetrated, and flung off as from a whirring of wheels; to cut their place in memory sharp as in steel when imagination shall by and by renew the throbbing of that hour, if the wheels be not stilled.
I was quite unprepared to find the situation of Verona so picturesque, and one feature I have not seen elsewhere, that of its innumerable mills on wheels to be run into and out of “the rapid Adige.
The sound of automobile wheels on the path answered her wish.
In many places it is thick and sticky like bread dough and piles up on your wheels or feet making it almost impossible to move.
Not having any chains I tried to put sticks and boards under the wheels and I succeeded but they went so far under that I could not see what became of them.
The front wheels stayed on the higher ground but the rear wheels seemed to be trying to catch up with them and finally did so, but when they did, they pulled the whole car off into the gutter which was not steep but oh, so muddy.
Without warning out of the night came a battery of guns with a clatter of horses' hoofs and clamor of wheels on the pavement, and in a few brief moments the sky lighted up with hellish explosions, and then died down again.
Again in obedience to a message from the commander the little wheels move, and the elevation of the gun is corrected.
The mud was getting deeper and deeper and the wheels began to clog.
Between the hind-wheels is placed a box, in which is concealed the machinery that moves the carriage.
There was a noise of wheels in the street; but what were noises to her?
Surely it was the sound of wheels coming towards her.
We had just bade them good morning and the old woman was asking us how we had slept, when the noise of wheels and horses' feet sounded outside.
The sound drew nearer; the wheels stopped at the door, but it could be only some friend, who had come in haste to tell them the bad news which they knew already.
When he woke, it was late, and as he dressed, he heard the noise of hoofs and wheels in the stable yard.
There was no pavement, and it was the less needed that the ways were rarely used by wheels of any description.
