"Wheel around" Quotes from Famous Books
... which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement betray; Where sits the dame disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around." ... — Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh
... and viols strung; That soon will arise the sound Of measures trod to tunes renowned; That She will return in Love's low tongue My vows as we wheel around. ... — Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... which volumes high From their proud nostrils, burns the very air; And sparks of flame, like dancing fire-flies wheel Around their manes, as common insects swarm ... — The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... imprudent in his direct attack, he was imprudent again on his new tack, and his usual obstinacy, made worse by irritation, counseled him to a dangerous course. As he dived lower and lower in hopes of being able to wheel around and have another shot, Bozon-Verduraz spied a chain of eight German one-seaters above the British lines. It was agreed between him and his chief that on such occasions he should offer himself to the newcomers, allure, ... — Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... is found Whirling upon the gods' swift wheel around, And changing still, and as the moon's fair frame Cannot continue for two nights the same, But out of shadow first a crescent shows, Thence into beauty and perfection grows, And when the form of plenitude it wears, ... — Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough |