| 单词 | wheelwork |
| 例句 | The feminine forms which, towering majestically above the thrones of wheelwork, look down upon the dwarfed passenger or equestrian, are to-day perceived to have been presented on no exaggerated scale in the pages of Punch. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z He is part of the rush in our social wheelwork, and yet he makes it move more slowly. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z But are we prepared to grant this first position—to assert that man is but an automaton, whose wheelwork is entirely without—the mere buffet and plaything of accident and circumstances? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Beside the paternal face, before which, with most children, the whole wheelwork of a free behavior grates and sticks, a third cause made him disconcerted and witty,–namely, that he was after something. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The awkward footsteps of this rough man have crushed to pieces the artificial wheelwork. Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians A small carriage geared to the wheelwork traversed its length, carrying electromagnetic signals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" He regarded each new person as a complicated piece of wheelwork, which it was the wise man's business to understand and not be angry with. Dreamers of the Ghetto It is, says Fabre, almost like the movement of a machine of which the wheelwork will not act until one has begun to turn the wheel which directs it. The Industries of Animals The man has got to be the backbone of the machine, with his quick balancings, his bendings, which are worth more than any wheelwork.” The Bill-Toppers The wheelwork of the great modern machine is infinitely delicate. The Simple Life The silent wheelwork of conspiracy had now been in operation for upward of a year. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett In the first place, the work of the Constituent Assembly was not principally to perpetuate this wheelwork of useless royalty, placed out of complaisance to the people's eyes, in machinery which did not regulate it. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution This reply would amount to nothing in the matter of explanation; the force of the current is as much a borrowed attribute as the force of the wheelwork. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 Was man made a wheelwork to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry A curious wheelwork runs round its four outspread petals; and a chain of minute things, living and dead, is winding in and out of their curves into a gulf at the back of the flower. The Pleasures of Life This it is which makes the water run; this it is which enables the running water to move the wheelwork inserted into its channel. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 There is a train of wheelwork enclosed with it in the case. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 |
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