"Wheel around" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which volumes high From their proud nostrils, burns the very air; And sparks of flame, like dancing fire-flies wheel Around their manes, as common insects swarm ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement betray; Where sits the dame disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around." ...
— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh
... the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... it was perfectly easy to whirl the little wheel around which made the rudder creep out. There was a steering wheel in the doctor's compartment and one in my own. He set it exactly amidships, and told me to prepare for the ascent. I turned out the gas in my compartment and crouched ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass
... imprudent in his direct attack, he was imprudent again on his new tack, and his usual obstinacy, made worse by irritation, counseled him to a dangerous course. As he dived lower and lower in hopes of being able to wheel around and have another shot, Bozon-Verduraz spied a chain of eight German one-seaters above the British lines. It was agreed between him and his chief that on such occasions he should offer himself to the newcomers, allure, ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux |
