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  • A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • In 1893, Congress imposed a clutch of safety regulations on interstate railroads: “power driving-wheel brakes,” “couplers coupling automatically by impact,” and “secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In 1893, Congress imposed a clutch of safety regulations on interstate railroads: “power driving-wheel brakes,” “couplers coupling automatically by impact,” and “secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In 1893, Congress imposed a clutch of safety regulations on interstate railroads: “power driving-wheel brakes,” “couplers coupling automatically by impact,” and “secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • An immovable cyclist, head down and with a frozen puff of dust behind his driving-wheel, scorched to overtake a galloping char-a-banc that did not stir.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • What is a mill with its driving-wheel, stones, beams, hammers, wheels, in comparison with this?

    How the Two Ivans Quarrelled 2003

  • At least I thought he was until he saw who it was behind the driving-wheel and then he made a smart about turn, went round the front of the car and escorted Mary Ruthven to the shelter of the porch where she ran forward and threw her arms round her father's neck.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • Oliphant brought his two freckled hams of hands down on the driving-wheel and made a complicated snorting noise.

    Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955

  • What is a mill with its driving-wheel, stones, beams, hammers, wheels, in comparison with this?

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • It's slow when it sets out; -- but steam is steam, -- and what's bred in the boiler will show in the driving-wheel, sooner or later.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

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