Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
motor-cycle .
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Examples
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The engine was in working order, and differed only very simply and obviously from that of a contemporary motor-bicycle.
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Bert met it one early-closing afternoon as he refreshed himself in an inn near Nutfield, whither his motor-bicycle had brought him.
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Bert sighed deeply, and turned to his motor-bicycle again.
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He was musing deeply by the mixed ironwork and ashes of his vanished motor-bicycle, a melancholy figure.
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Edna wore a brown straw hat with poppies, that suited her admirably, and sat in the trailer like a queen, and the eight-year-old motor-bicycle ran like a thing of yesterday.
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Bert sat on the low wall against which his motor-bicycle was leaning.
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For a time the possibilities of the motor-bicycle so occupied
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He had a motor-bicycle, and I sent him off next morning for the daily paper, which usually arrived with the post in the late afternoon.
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"In that circumstantial eventuality there can be no question of a motor-bicycle," he said.
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"In that circumstantial eventuality there can be no question of a motor-bicycle," he said.
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