tread-wheel

Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Bismarck, Tolstoy said, was another of the “oldjades” walking the “tread-wheel” of politics.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The scheme was singularly adventurous, but the die was cast; he was in the position of the man on the tread-wheel, and felt that he must write or perish.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

When I went to Maysville to school, in 1836, at the age of fourteen, I recognized my colt as one of the blind horses working on the tread-wheel of the ferry-boat.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The provisions for the fortress are brought in up an inclined plane, and raised by means of a tread-wheel, formerly worked by the prisoners.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

On the towers of the four prison wings there are reservoirs for containing water, which is thrown up by a pump worked by the prisoners at the tread-wheel, whenever water is required, and by means of lead pipes, it is then conveyed to every part of the prison.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various

"The horse on the tread-wheel can look through a crack, and see a flower growing outside."

Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895