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  • I went to that Fair as a mere civilian, leaving the cart outside the town, and I looked about the back of the Vans while the performing was going on, and at last, sitting dozing against a muddy cart-wheel, I come upon the poor girl who was deaf and dumb.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • I went to that Fair as a mere civilian, leaving the cart outside the town, and I looked about the back of the Vans while the performing was going on, and at last, sitting dozing against a muddy cart-wheel, I come upon the poor girl who was deaf and dumb.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • At the back of the head, draw, and gild with gold-leaf, a halo or glory, of the exact shape of a cart-wheel: and you have the thing done.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Only time I see acrobatics in a self-made kata is when Master U does a cart-wheel.

    nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2004

  • He was no slinger or flinger, but brandished in his right hand the spoke of a cart-wheel, like my countryman Tom

    Lavengro 2004

  • A low booming sound, accompanied it, until it seemed to reach the horizon, after which a sound like the report of a cannon was heard, and the concussion was such that some tin pots, standing reversed on a cart-wheel, fell to the ground, and the boat on the dray vibrated for some minutes.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • He went over with a great whirling movement, almost like one throwing the half of a boy's cart-wheel.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • I was looking at a very beautiful girl, in a big cart-wheel hat, sitting in a victoria outside

    Dracula 2003

  • He sat down by the cart-wheel, darkly, and took up his tools.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • Why! here are a parcel of words full as analogous as chalk and cheese, or a cat and a cart-wheel!

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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