"Pedal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it all, like a throbbing pedal note, ran his need of this girl. He would do anything, suffer anything, make any sacrifice, momentary or lifelong, if he could but see her again, hold her hand for one instant, look into her eyes mysterious with the secret of death. He had but three or four words to say to her, just to secure ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson
... Dick dismounted, and Mark climbed into the saddle. He began to pedal, and then threw in the gasolene and spark. The ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... organs, and capable of being played alone or in connection with each other. Four manuals, or hand key-boards, and two pedals, or foot key-boards, command these several systems,—the solo organ, the choir organ, the swell organ, and the great organ, and the piano and forte pedal-organ. Twelve pairs of bellows, which it is intended to move by water-power, derived from the Cochituate reservoirs, furnish the breath which pours itself forth in music. Those beautiful effects, for which the organ is incomparable, the crescendo ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
... magnet flashes its sparks to ignite it, the cooling water bathes the hot walls of the cylinders—a thing of nerves, and ganglions, and tireless muscles is panting eagerly at your service. You move this lever, you press your foot lightly on this pedal; the engine transfers its power to the wheels; you move. The carriage with you and your friends is borne at railway speed across continents. You can hurl yourself at sixty miles an hour along the great highroads, you can crawl like a worm through ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... They put the soft pedal on me. They 'muted' me," he amended, in deference to her own ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
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