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Word: wheeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...alone with me in the engine cab, and taunted me again with that devilish leering sneer; and then there was a dull blow, and I threw open the throttle valve and crept, with it in my arms, through the narrow window, and dropped it under the driving-wheel. Then away we went, and the heavy train leaped and jumped from side to side as we shot through the darkness. How white their faces looked at the car window, and how they screamed! I howled at them for very joy, and I felt the engine leap forward under me; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NIGHTMARE. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...place for everything, and everything in its place.' A man at Yale nails his slippers on the wall four feet up, and then all he has to do of an evening is to wheel up his easy-chair in front of them and pull out his meerschaum." - Amherst Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...also called the Hub ? Because the Hub goes slower than any other part of the wheel, and because centrifugal force makes everything that comes there leave it again as fast and as far as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...Safe Home at Last, Pinsuti; My Love she is a Kitten, Collier; I would I were a King, Fair Maid, Arthur Sullivan; Around the World with Grant (song with chorus), Thompson; Wandering back to the Old Home (with chorus), Gleason. Piano Music; Le Chant du Coeur, Sudds; The Mill Wheel, Boyton Smith; Polka, op. 212, Carl Faust; Heart Memories, Jungmann; Spring Flower Waltz, Himau; In Dusky Dale (four hands), Merkel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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