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Sentences starting with wheels

Wheels come off, horses take fright, coachmen drive too fast, coaches overturn. [12]
Wheels crunched the gravel--Howard was going off. [9]

Sentences ending with wheels

A muffled head was suddenly thrust out from under the straw, a voice cried: "A hospital on wheels! [10]
Curiosity drew both to the spot, and as Miriam's stately bearing made the throng move respectfully aside, they soon saw the mournful contents of a large travelling-chariot, which had lost its wheels. [10]
Stop, dear nature, these innocent advances of thine; let us scotch these ever-rolling wheels! [6]
Lord, how the plumes streamed, how the sun flamed and flashed from the endless procession of webby wheels! [5]
Was he born on the wheels? [4]
Hark, the sound of wheels! [9]
In the movement of the ponderous car, some honest folk must be crushed by the wicked wheels. [11]
I was so little that it was a wonder that I did n't fall off, and get under the broad wheels. [4]
In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of hoofs and wheels. [2]
But just as I was taking leave the pavement echoed with the noise of hoofs and the rattle of wheels. [10]

Short sentences using wheels

The buggy wheels sounded nearer. [11]

Sentences containing wheels two or more times

Whenever I see the movement of a locomotive I hear the whistle and see the valves opening and wheels turning; but I have no right to conclude that the whistling and the turning of wheels are the cause of the movement of the engine. [2]

More example sentences with the word wheels in them

The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
The noise of wheels, hoofs, and bells was heard from the gateway as a little trap passed out. [2]
She heard the wheels of the carriage on the circle--yet she listened to them die away. [9]
One of the wheels caught her dress and dragged her down. [10]
Perhaps he guessed what was going on in me, for he said in a low, cultured voice: "The wheels will stop too long some time, and there will be no rebound;" --referring to the irregular action of his heart. [11]
The rolling wheels were noiseless, and the sharp ring and clatter of the horses' hoofs, became a dull, muffled tramp. [12]
His best days were done, the spring of his life was gone, and the step was that of a man who had little more of activity and force with which to turn the halting wheels of life. [11]
For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
It's a huge vessel, moved by wheels, by which the water is thrust aside. [10]
The wheels work upon one another as they do in the Emperor's best Nuremberg clock. [10]
They were frequently under fire --when they brought back the wounded or fetched car-loads of munitions to the great guns on the ridiculous little trains of flat cars with open-work wheels, which they named--with American humour--the Federal Express and the Twentieth Century Limited. [9]
The tracks of two wheels run side by side and never touch. [10]
He seemed to turn no wheels, or only a few at least, and feebly. [9]
The traction engine travels about on its own wheels, till it reaches the required spot; then it stands still and by means of a wire rope pulls the huge plow toward itself two or three hundred yards across the field, between the rows of cane. [5]
We fairly seemed to pick up our wheels and fly--and the mail matter was lifted up free from everything and held in solution! [5]
If I were to come again, Mr. King, I'd come in a yacht, drive up from it in a box on two wheels, with a man clinging on behind with his back to me, and have a cottage with an English gardener. [4]
We were going to Cahokia, and it was very cold, and when the tireless wheels bumped from ridge to gully, the gentlemen grabbed each other as they slid about, and laughed. [9]
Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well. [2]
In these unsettled times our sacred lore is like a chariot on the declivity of a precipice, and under the wheels thereof a stone. [10]
At any other time the swing of the cars would have lulled him to sleep, and the rattle and clank of wheels and rails, the roar of the whirling iron would have only been cheerful reminders of swift and safe travel. [5]
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? [6]
Added to these there were the clatter of hoofs and the roll of wheels, the whinnying of horses, the shouts of command, the rattle of drums, the blare of trumpets, and the shrill pipe of flutes, without a moment's pause. [10]
The more wheels there are in a watch or a brain, the more trouble they are to take care of. [6]
The grind of their wheels and the clash of their harsh bells imperfectly fill the silence that the omnibuses have left, and the eye misses the tumultuous perspective of former times. [8]
That is what the Young Doctor had; but he knew it was not easy to forget those scenes in which man carved the body of fellow-man, laying bare the very vitals of existence, seeing "the wheels go round. [11]
I had stopped the wheels, and there my authority and responsibility ceased. [5]
I could hear the wheels churn along the bank, but I was not entirely certain that I could see the shore. [5]
Every turn of the wheels carried us farther and farther away from a familiar world to one of yesterday. [11]
Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, and the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard. [2]
But at length the sound of wheels was heard in the street, Cynthia flew to the door, and a familiar voice came out of the darkness. [9]
Under ordinary circumstances the sound of wheels on the gravel would have aroused her, for Hugh scarcely ever drove. [9]
At length, when the sound of the wheels had died away, Jethro broke the silence. [9]
Could it be the roar of the thousand wheels and the ten thousand footsteps jarring and trampling along the stones of the neighboring city? [6]
Another man says the locomotive moves because its wheels go round. [2]
Having fallen into the line of carriages, the Rostovs' carriage drove up to the theater, its wheels squeaking over the snow. [2]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
Victoria stood before the fire listening to the sound of the wheels gradually growing fainter, and her mind refused to work. [9]
Nettlewood Foyle watched the dust rising from the wheels of the stage, which had passed the elevator and was nearing the Prairie Home Hotel far down the street. [11]
Presently he drove the dogs across the road, and attached them to a flat vehicle, without wheels or runners, used by Garotte for the drawing of lime and stones. [11]
As soon as the convicts had thrown themselves on the ground the rattle of wheels, the neighing of fiery steeds, shouts of command, and sometimes the disagreeable braying of an ass were heard. [10]
The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. [2]
The music in the cabin came to an abrupt pause, and only the tumbling of waters through the planks of the great wheels broke the silence. [9]
The sound of the buggy wheels came still nearer. [11]
The shivering of the boat under the beating of the wheels was sheer misery to them. [5]
O aching days that passed Filled with strange fears, each wilder than the last: The soldier's lance,--the fierce centurion's sword, The crushing wheels that whirl some Roman lord, The midnight crypt that suck's the captive's breath, The blistering sun on Hinnom's vale of death! [6]
White walls, gaudily-painted temples and private villas gleamed among the green, and the slanting rays of the low sun, shining on the drops that fell from the never-resting wheels and buckets that irrigated the land, turned them into showers of diamonds. [10]
The "second-best lordship" still came and went, the wheels went round as usual. [11]
She, presently, would step out of the noise, the oppressive moist heat of the drawing and spinning rooms, the constant, remorseless menace of whirling wheels and cogs and belts. [9]
There were the steady roar of wheels and the tramping of feet without, but within was the stillness of death. [4]
Though they murmur soft "Our Father," Angel wings to speed it on Past the bright wheels of the Pleiads, Have they thought of benison? [11]
His slumber was so sound, that he did not hear the rumble of wheels in the quiet courtyard below him. [10]
From the land side help might come at any hour, and at every roll of wheels along the road her heart beat faster and hope sprang up anew. [4]
Ten minutes later--if she had marked the interval--came the sound of wheels again, this time growing louder. [9]
The wheels seem scarcely to touch the smooth flags of the Alexandrian pavement. [10]
As the wheels rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. [2]
Upon those hollow rocks the bellow of the storms was like the rumbling of the wheels of a million gun-carriages; and yet high overhead there were only the bright sun and faint drops of rain falling like mystic pearls. [11]
Large vessels of richly wrought gold and silver were brought into the hall on wheels, and set on the side-boards. [10]
It had to remain a present mystery, for all we could get from the conductor in answer to our hails was something that sounded, through the clatter of the wheels, like "Tell you in the morning! [5]
The chariots had reached the dry portion of the bay and lingered some time ere they continued their way along this dangerous path; but suddenly the Egyptian war-cry rang out, and the rattle of wheels was again heard. [10]
With cracking whip, rattling wheels, and shouting to clear the way, we drove into the Strada di San Francisca, and to an arched gateway. [4]
There came a rattle of wheels behind him, and he shifted to let a carriage pass. [11]
They ordered the prisoners to move aside and defer their march until the swifter baggage train, bearing Pharaoh's tents and travelling equipments, whose chariot wheels could already be heard, had passed them. [10]
Outside the temple precincts too all had been still; but just now a clatter of hoofs and rumble of wheels was audible through the silence, otherwise so profound that it seemed increased by every sound. [10]
Have not rode out much yet, but have at last got new tires on the carriage wheels and perhaps shall ride out soon. [7]
Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. [6]
The wheels pause only for a little space, And in the pause they gather strength again. [11]
There is only one thing which can rouse the machine; not will,--that cannot reach it; nothing but a ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats out the heart of the mechanism. [6]
In the course of time, the King was killed in battle, and when his chariot wheels were washed in the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked the blood. [5]
The far cry of the king-fisher, and idly clacking wheels of carts rolling down from Dalgrothe Mountain, accented the drowsy melody of the afternoon. [11]
On the hinge of noon he heard behind him the tramp of horses' hoofs and the rattle of wheels, approaching nearer and nearer with ominous haste. [10]
The feeling must of necessity come to many aged persons that they have outlived their usefulness; that they are no longer wanted, but rather in the way, drags on the wheels rather than helping them forward. [6]
But the wheels of justice had begun to turn. [9]
At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers. [5]
Through the dulled noises of London there came to their ears the click of the wheels of a cape-wagon, the crack of the Kaffir's whip, the creak of the disselboom. [11]
At the Villa Nardi we have no sound of wheels, no noise of work or traffic, no suggestion of conflict. [4]
I said to myself, Why should not I overcome this dread of woman as Peter the Great fought down his dread of wheels rolling over a bridge? [6]
I can only move on wheels behind the person who takes me. [10]
The tough little Morgans of that time, which kept their feet like cats, have all but disappeared, but there were places on that road where Lyman Hull put the shoes under his wheels for four miles at a stretch. [9]
They trudged forward, more slowly and painfully than they had done yet, for another mile or thereabouts, when they heard the sound of wheels behind them, and looking round observed an empty cart approaching pretty briskly. [12]
Fifty and five minutes had been registered by the French clock, when the rattle of wheels and the clatter of hoofs sounded below, and Charles Fox panted up the stairs, muffled in a huge wrap-rascal. [9]
It was not long before the solid trot of Caustic, the old bay horse, and the crashing of the gravel under the wheels, gave notice that the physician was driving up the avenue. [6]
From all sides, like the roar of the sea, were heard the rattle of wheels, the tramp of feet, and incessant shouts of anger and abuse. [2]
Down on the levee wheels rattled over the white stones washed clean by the driving rain. [9]
We were soon left out of sight; but it was no matter, for we had the deep ruts the wheels made for a guide. [5]
But she concealed it, and crossing her arms she said resolutely and with dignity: "Go your way--through life with your Ovid, and your gods of love, but do not attempt to crush innocence under the wheels of your chariot. [10]
Farther up town it was quite still, and in one of the noble houses in the neighborhood of the Park sat Edith Delancy, married not quite a year, listening for the roll of wheels and the click of a night-key. [4]
The situation, when it came, was even more difficult than Hodder had imagined it, since McCrae was not a man to oil the wheels of conversation. [9]
This nomadism, which is nothing less than society on wheels, cannot be satirized as a whim of fashion; it has a serious cause in--the discovery of the disease called nervous prostration, which demands for its cure constant change of scene, without any occupation. [4]
He was sought in vain afterwards, and at last Margaret came away dazed and stunned by the noise of the wheels of the great republic in motion. [4]
Once or twice in midstream the wheels sunk into the yielding sands so threateningly that we half believed we had dreaded and avoided the sea all our lives to be shipwrecked in a "mud-wagon" in the middle of a desert at last. [5]
And Mr. Swain, in imitation of the high example set by Mr. Bordley, had buildings put up for wheels and the looms, and in due time kept his own sheep. [9]
Pentaur remained as if spell-bound, standing by the pillar, till the rattle of the departing wheels on the flag-way of the Avenue of Sphinxes had altogether died away, and the reflection of the glowing sunset painted the eastern hills with soft and rosy hues. [10]
But at last his hands trembled among the tiny wheels, and his eyes failed. [11]
The shepherd and his flock are at variance; the wheels of the state machinery are grinding one another and thus the state itself, into total ruin. [10]
Presently Jethro lifted his chin, and dropped it again; there was a sound of wheels without, and, after an interval, a knock at the door. [9]
The driver in his bast shoes ran panting up to it, placed a stone under one of its tireless hind wheels, and began arranging the breech-band on his little horse. [2]
Great leather straps held up this house on wheels, to take the jolts of the road. [9]
At last I heard the sound of wheels, and a carriage stopped at the door. [6]
But now he heard the rumble of buggy wheels behind. [11]

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