wire-hung

Updated: May 15, 2025

Higher even than the most gigantic wind-wheels hung this crow's nest, a clear thousand feet above the roofs, a little disc-shaped speck on a spear of metallic filigree, cable stayed. To its summit Graham was drawn in a little wire-hung cradle.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - When the Sleeper Wakes

Higher even than the most gigantic, wind-wheels hung this crow's nest, a clear thousand feet above the roofs, a little disc-shaped speck on a spear of metallic filigree, cable stayed. To its summit Graham was drawn in a little wire-hung cradle.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes