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Examples

  • When she looked up the flycycle was a dwindling dumbbell shape.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • When she looked up the flycycle was a dwindling dumbbell shape.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • In a great floating prison he hung head down from his burned-out flycycle, ninety feet above a hard floor strewn with the bones of earlier captives.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • In a great floating prison he hung head down from his burned-out flycycle, ninety feet above a hard floor strewn with the bones of earlier captives.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • He mounted his flycycle and looked about him, wondering if he had forgotten anything.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Use it to climb over the flycycle until you are balanced on top.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Beneath the diverging silver speck of Speaker's flycycle, a bright spot showed on the cloud cover ... as if a spotlight followed Speaker from below.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • They were passing into the dark interior when Speaker's flycycle, which had been edging closer to Louis's, quietly turned over.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • He was head down, with two crash balloons and the flycycle between him and the ceiling.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • The flycycle was upside down, and so was the puppeteer, held by seat webbing rather than crash balloons.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

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