wheel-spokes

Bowman, as all glances present converged like wheel-spokes upon the boot in the centre of them.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

But he pleaded with the winds; and before he had reached the end of the platform, the carriage windows were flying by him with the speed of wheel-spokes, and the end of the coupé, with its red lantern, sailed away through the cutting.

Wylder's Hand 2003

“I want a change,” said Old Jim dourly in response to her inquiry; and went on polishing wheel-spokes, and making the wheel fly.

Australia Felix 2003

Across the rainbow the sun throws its rays in the form of giant wheel-spokes tinged with a beautiful pink.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

And in case you don't happen to be a dance-buff, Isadora Duncan was killed when the long, trailing scarf she wore (about twelve feet worth of silk) was caught in the wheel-spokes of a Bugatti sports-car in which she was riding, breaking her neck.

Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

Evadne's speech was interrupted by a bulkier shape looming at her side: that of Conan, effortlessly mounting the wheel-spokes and stepping into the cart.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

Evadne's speech was interrupted by a bulkier shape looming at her side: that of Conan, effortlessly mounting the wheel-spokes and stepping into the cart.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

It is not in very good repair; indeed, one side is gone, and there is something wrong with the wheel-spokes; but in spite of that I will give it to you.

The Devoted Friend 1986

Many of the wheel-spokes and disselboonu had been replaced with raw native timber; the canopies were patched until little of the original canvas was visible; the teams were reduced from eighteen to ten oxen each, for there had been predators and sickness to weed them out.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

And the yoke, shaft, wheels, and the wheel-spokes of my car, overwhelmed with that arrowy shower, at once broke.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli