| 单词 | axletree |
| 例句 | ‘I had rather hear my mother’s cat mew, or a wheel grate on the axletree, than one of these same metre-ballad-mongers’ chaunt his incondite, retrograde lays, without rhyme and without reason. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Nine miles from Abbeville our axletree gave way through the hard frost, and we were left to the piercing cold on the side of a hill without shelter. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Yen translated rapidly, scurrying along behind his sentences like a carriage dog beneath an axletree. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z These sledges had tumbling wheels of solid wood a foot and a half in diameter, revolving with the wooden axletree, and held little more than a wheelbarrow. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z After an old cart or waggon has done its work and is broken up, the wooden axletree, which is very solid, is frequently used for the top bar of a stile. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z We often sank into mud-holes above the axletree; then, over trunks of trees laid across swamps, called here corduroy roads, were my poor bones dislocated. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z His carriage was overturned, and the axletree broken. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z At last it cleared away entire, But all that we could see Was Lige's dog a squattin' down Beneath the axletree. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 The ruts, or rather trenches, were up to the axletrees. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z They wished even for the corduroy expedient a little farther on, when the line became encumbered with stumps left from the underbrushing, and which caught in the axletree every few score yards. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement She was higher than the street or the street-goers, by just so much as the height of the axletree of the carriage. The House in Town We had driven the wagons into a circle, with the tongue of each wagon chained to the hind axletree of the wagon ahead. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail So was the barrel of water, standing just back of the rear axletree. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies I almost wish I could threaten you with a fever, or something serious; but I see you are as sound as that 'axletree' our friend spoke of the other day. Say and Seal, Volume I His ministers at foreign courts walked on foot, or drove shabby old carriages till the axletrees gave way. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) From that time they went on more slowly; so much so that, in the neighbourhood of Gauburge, the axletree broke, and the waggon remained tilted over. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Hard by the ocean limit and the set of sun is the extreme Aethiopian land, where ancient Atlas turns on his shoulders the starred burning axletree of heaven. The Aeneid of Virgil "That happens to be my name," replied the man, scarcely giving his visitor a glance, as he turned to take the stick out of the grease, and to rub it on the axletree. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies Pattaquasset seems to me to be, socially, at one extreme pole of the axletree before-mentioned, and while I am here I feel no revolution of the great mass heaving beyond. Say and Seal, Volume I With blood the whole axletree was stained beneath, and the rims around the chariot-seat, which the drops from the horses' hoofs, and from the wheel-tires, spattered. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Some carried the travellers’ tents, cooking utensils, a tool-chest, and additional axletrees, their arms and ammunition, together with their clothes, spare blankets, and waterproofs. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America He saw a greater Sun appear Than his bright throne, or burning axletree, could bear. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Note the heavy bed on which the cheeks of the carriage rest and the built-in skid under the center of the rear axletree. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America A magnificent and lofty car, formed of blue enamel with golden wheels, and axletrees of turquoises and brilliants, and drawn by twelve snow-white and sacred horses, four abreast; in the car Alroy and Schirene. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity And the whole axletree beneath was polluted with gore, and the rings which were round the chariot seat, which the drops from the horses' hoofs spattered, as well as from the felloes. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Vases of similar shape, containing flowers, should be placed on each side of the seat; a long rope, covered with crimson cloth, should be attached to the front axletree. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants I thought as how, sir, that your infallible axletree would give way. Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden These bars strengthened the axletree and resisted wear at the spindle. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Two or three cabs waited at the curb, from one of which fluttered a facetious knot of white ribbon tied to an axletree. The Henchman The carriages are also to be carefully examined, the trunnion-holes and arms of the axletrees cleaned, and saturated with boiled linseed oil, the cracks filled with putty, and rubbed smooth, and the trunnion-holes black-leaded. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. From the forks of the Platte to the valley of the Sacramento, there is not a stick of growing timber that would make a decent axe-helve, much less a substantial axletree. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Cottonwood trees yielded carriage wheels two feet in diameter, and the masts of the pirogues made axletrees. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark The British put copper on the bottom of the spindle; Spanish and French designers put copper on the top, then set iron "axletree bars" into the bottom. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America The mud was nearly up to the axletree of our cart. Round About the Carpathians D. Front and rear axletrees, consisting each of square body f, and arms g, jogged into brackets. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Two more sections from the big tree formed the wheels, while a square piece of quartering thrust through formed an axletree. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles The mast of the white periogue which we mean to leave behind, supplied us with two axletrees. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. He would as soon hear "a brazen candlestick tuned, or a dry wheel grate on the axletree." Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution The wheels, however, were good, and so were its axletrees, and I knew that it would enable us to reach the mines with a little patching. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia With the Ordinary carriage.—To shift a rear truck, handspikemen lift under the rear axletree. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Barely a mile had they traversed, before an ominous crack proclaimed the splitting of an axletree. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. On their return the axletrees and carriages were repaired, and the baggage, conveyed on the shoulders of the party across Willow run which had fallen as low as three feet. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Tom, however, at length cut the giant such a blow with the axletree on the side of his head, that he nearly reeled over. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) There was a puff, a groaning of the heavy axletrees, a trembling of the building, and the train was in motion. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader To shift a front truck the rear truck on the opposite side should first be taken off, then handspikemen lift under the fore axletree. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. A log thick enough to make an axletree may thus be somewhat seasoned in a single night. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Their construction may be thus described: A sort of barrow made of blue cloth hangs like a box upon an axletree about a yard long, furnished with two clumsy wheels. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 Each base had brasen wheels attached, with brasen axletrees, and brackets which stretched from the four upper corners of the bases to the outward rim of the laver. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters The name sounds like the breaking of an axletree. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 These wheels are coupled together by an axletree, into which a tongue is inserted. What I Saw in California Parties travelling with a wagon ought to fell a little timber on their outward journey, and leave it to season against their return, in readiness to replace strained axletrees, broken poles, and the like. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries A part of it strikes De Young's dumpcart abaft the axletree and flings him, hurtling, skyward, a thing of legs and arms, to descend on the distant mountains, where it is cold. Black Beetles in Amber The lining, the floor, and the axletrees seemed worn out with fatigue. The Man Who Laughs In many places the wheels of the carts sank to the axletrees in consequence of the rottenness of the ground near the creeks. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 The wagon itself was standing in front of the shop, with one end of the hind axletree supported by a block. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont In some places the hind wheels are taken off, and sledge runners are fitted to the hind axletree. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries But ere she had time for anything further, one of the axletrees snapped asunder, and to proceed further in their present condition was impossible. Maggie Miller It was a post-chaise taken off its axletree and wheels, and plumped down on the clayey soil among a ragged growth of vegetables. The Uncommercial Traveller Owing to the irregularities of the surface the axletree of one of our carts gave way this day. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 I tell you that the traces are of silk and the axletrees of gold, and the timber of the car is ebony. The High History of the Holy Graal Now it was only half over the wheels, now it hid the axletree, and now the coach sank down in it almost to the windows. American Notes The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W Inferior ministers, for Mars, repair His broken axletrees and blunted war, And send him forth again with furbish'd arms, To wake the lazy war with trumpets' loud alarms. The Aeneid English But the rains are heavy on roads like these; And, fronting his lonely home, For weeks together the settler sees The teams bogged down to the axletrees, Or ploughing the sodden loam. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Sir 33:5 The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha So mercy is the strong axletree, the northern pole and the southern, on which the whole world of the divine perfections revolves and moves. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The driver composedly shouted to us to alight; the hole was only deep enough to sink the vehicle to the axletree. The Englishwoman in America The wheel-tires and axletree are carefully seen to, and greased when required, the bolts and nuts tightened, and all the parts likely to get out of order overhauled. The Book of Household Management The axletree of the great wheel crosses the two beaters. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The imaginary rattle of his wagon was like the sound of lutes and harps, and I would rather have clung to his axletree than have been rocked in the best berth in the ship. Winter Sunshine Perhaps it was well for his cattle that the axletree gave way and the chaise of course overturned, before they had travelled one-third part of the stage. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Let there be but a single flaw in the axletree, and one day it will snap in twain; and Mascarin wanted to eliminate this flaw. Caught in the Net The horses, under the axletree Beat up the dawn from Istria With even feet. Poems Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep; And Time seems then not for to fly, but creep; Slowly her chariot drives, as if that she Had broke her wheel, or crack'd her axletree. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick |
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