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Examples
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Dear hearts of my counting, would he revoke them, forewheel to packnumbers, and, the time being no help fort, plates to lick one and turn over.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Sol looked out on the other side, and found that the forewheel of their carriage had become locked in the wheel of a dogcart they had overtaken, the road here being very narrow.
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“Touch!” cried at this moment one of the men at the forewheel, who was superintending the operation.
Round the Moon 2003
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He seized a spoke of the forewheel and shook the old vehicle angrily.
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One wheel went right across his back, and t'other forewheel mashed his feet.
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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The car, running a little less than locomotive speed, shot across the strip of sidewalk, caught its right forewheel against a sapling, swung heavily broadside to the drive, and turned completely over as it shot down the slope to the lake.
The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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The mare crashed into the rockaway on one side and the bay shattered the swingletree on the other with the forewheel of our buggy.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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She was standing bravely beside the forewheel, her face flushed and eager.
Beverly of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Sol looked out on the other side, and found that the forewheel of their carriage had become locked in the wheel of a dogcart they had overtaken, the road here being very narrow.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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Recently I had a thrush knock himself senseless against the spokes of my forewheel, and cycling friends have told me of similar experiences they have had, in some instances the heedless birds getting killed.
Afoot in England 1881
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