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It must be a very stupid dog that lets himself be run over by a fast driver in his gig; he can jump out of the wheel's way after the tire has already touched him. So, while one is lifting a stick to strike or drawing back his foot to kick, the beast makes his spring, and the blow or the kick comes too late. It was not so this time.
Nor would he forge ahead of me, though he could have done so in a moment, he who from his boyhood had done everything of the kind so much better than anybody else. No, he must ride a wheel's length behind me, and now we could not only hear the boys running, but breathing also.
One of them had crept up on my side also; as I looked, hearing him pant, he was grabbing at my left handle, and I nearly sent Raffles into the hedge by the sharp turn I took to the right. His wheel's length saved him.
Her visit lasted fifteen minutes. From the moment of her entry, the room was in such turmoil as may be seen where a water-mill wheel's paddles are suddenly set rounding to pour streams of foam on the smooth pool below. A relentless catechism bewildered their hearing. Mrs. Collett attempted an opposition of dignity to those vehement attacks for answers. It was flooded and rolled over.
"Daughter of Herodias," I commented grimly to myself; but my hand did not leave hers. "What is happening?" I shouted in her ear. "We've lost way," came her answer. "I think we're caught aback! The wheel's up, but she could not steer!" The Gabriel voice of the Samurai rang out. "Hard over?" was his mellow storm-call to the man at the wheel.
Therefore, thou also, O Kunti's son, ought not to grieve. Deprived thou hast truly been of a flourishing kingdom, but thou wilt regain it by thy ascetic austerities. Misery after happiness, and happiness after misery, revolve by turns round a man even like the point of a wheel's circumference round the axle.
"Well, remember you're to head the boat out from the beach, pull the bottom plug, and let her sink in deep water. Make sure your wheel's amidships." "Shove out and lower away," retorted Casey. "D'you think I never learned to run a naphtha launch?"
Therefore, thou also, O Kunti's son, ought not to grieve. Deprived thou hast truly been of a flourishing kingdom, but thou wilt regain it by thy ascetic austerities. Misery after happiness, and happiness after misery, revolve by turns round a man even like the point of a wheel's circumference round the axle.
You should keep abreast of the age, my dear fellows. We might have settled it long ago, if you'd only spoken. Yes, four good turbines and a neat brick penstock eh? This old Wheel's absurdly out of date." "Well," said the Cat, who after a little proud seclusion had returned to her place impenitent as ever.
Then standing knee-deep he wiggled the wheel's rim very cautiously out to the end of its hanger, so that it just balanced there. One more grand drive, one more effort of unyielding strength and accurate dexterity and he would be upon the road. The thought acted as a stimulant.
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