| 单词 | tread-wheel |
| 例句 | That is the tread-wheel you have chosen to turn without the smallest profit to yourself or any one else. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z "The horse on the tread-wheel can look through a crack, and see a flower growing outside." Old Ebenezer He proposed that the tread-wheel should measure the progress of the culprit, and that every revolution should bring him nearer to liberty. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The scheme was singularly adventurous, but the die was cast; he was in the position of the man on the tread-wheel, and felt that he must write or perish. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The tread-wheel is usually worked by two men or women, who steady themselves by holding to a cross-bar, while their weight revolves the tread-wheel and works a chain of water-pockets. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The building was open to the roof, and the first thing to be seen in it was that tread-wheel of which Elzevir had spoken. Moonfleet The tread-wheel had been the mode in his time; so by the time he had made three thousand turns he was rather exhausted. It Is Never Too Late to Mend To drill twelve hundred scoundrels by "the method of kindness," and of abolishing your very tread-wheel,—how could any commander rejoice to have such a work cut out for him? Latter-Day Pamphlets These were the subjects whom our brave Captain and Prison-Governor was appointed to command, and reclaim to other service, by "the method of love," with a tread-wheel abolished. Latter-Day Pamphlets |
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