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Steve Yeager held his bronco to a Spanish trot. Somewhere in front of him, among the brown hill swells that rose and fell like waves of the sea, lay Los Robles and breakfast. One solitary silver dollar, too lonesome even to jingle, lay in his flatulent trouser pocket. After he and Four Bits had eaten, two quarters would take the place of the big cartwheel.
As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west. While it hung there, the moon rose in the east, as big as a cartwheel, pale silver and streaked with rose color, thin as a bubble or a ghost-moon. For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world.
"Well, I can do a cartwheel and " "Oh, fudge!" interrupted Teddy. "That's more than Tucker could do when he joined the show. Do you know what he did, first of all?" said Phil. "No; what did he do?" chorused the boys. "He poured coffee in the cook tent for the thirsty roustabouts. That's the way he began his circus career." "I didn't do it more than a day or two," Tucker explained, rather lamely.
She was always knitting blue stockings, I never discovered for what or whom; and she wore her lifeless hair in the shape of a small toy cartwheel, on the back of her head.
The rustic Turk had not yet mastered the art, even if he has mastered it to-day, of constructing a cartwheel in a circle. He makes it eight-sided, and builds his vehicles without springs, and the wounded went along the vile road with a compound jolt for every foot of ground they traversed.
She wore her old gray Stetson pretty well over one eye because of the sun-glare, and she was riding on one stirrup and letting the other foot swing free, and she was whirling her quirt round and round, cartwheel fashion, and whistling an air that every one knows, and putting in certain complicated variations of her own.
Of course the cartwheel hats would not go into them, but ladies don't wear such things, only women who want to advertize themselves. Next," she continued, "comes the question of the looking-glass. I have made efforts to use a small miroir de poche, but it is far from adequate.
This was the reality of the charts she had seen in the astronomy text: that knowledge alone saved her sanity. She had believed it when the proof lay hidden above the rain mist; she must believe it now. From where she stood, she was able to see the place where the god-car had brought her like a vast cartwheel spinning in the void.
After a while Tody turned a somersault, a cartwheel, and a flipflop, and landed right near their seat. "How would you like to ride on an elephant?" he whispered in Marmaduke's ear. Of course Marmaduke answered: "Better 'n anything I ever did." So Tody took him by the hand and led him into the little tent and put a little pointed cap on his head, just like Tody's own.
Snale, a member of the church, a woman whom I never saw moved to any generosity, and cruel not with the ferocity of the tiger, but with the dull insensibility of a cartwheel, which will roll over a man's neck as easily as over a flint. The third picture represented the descent of the Holy Ghost; a number of persons sitting in a chamber, and each one with the flame of a candle on his head.
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