"Tricycle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little girl's tricycle doesn't roll down hill and bunk into the peanut man and make him spill his ice cream, I'll tell you next about Bawly ...
— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis
... Greeks and others had four-spoke models. This was quite an invention and in addition to its useful aspects, it produced some rather unusual, even magical side-effects. As every child knows, if you turn your tricycle upside-down and spin the wheel, the spokes seem to vanish. All that can be seen is the rim and the parts of the hub near the center of rotation. No matter what shape the hub actually is, it too looks round like a wheel. It is very likely that such an effect was referred to ...
— The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel • Arthur W. Orton
... mainly to improving his motor (which, by the way, he has applied to the tricycle), M. Trouv does not disdain telephony, but has introduced into the manufacture of magnets for the purpose ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... occurred between our Christmas holidays and Eastertide: this was Bill's invention of the tricycle sailboat or land yacht. We had returned to school with sailing on the brain. Our skate sail served us well enough while there was any ice, but as spring came on we wished we had our canoe with us, or even the old scow ...
— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond
... of the safety bicycle an excellent tricycle, called the "omnicycle," was put on the market; and the villagers were greatly excited over one I purchased, of course only for road work, expecting me to use it on my farming rounds; and Mrs. Bell was heard to say, "I knows I shall laugh when I sees the master ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... to pedal and to guide a tricycle in about three lessons. He caught the two ideas almost instantly, and soon brought his muscles under control sufficiently to ride successfully, even under ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... her drag the old battered tricycle to the Porch! We helped her open up every porch door till all the green lawn and gay petunia blossoms came right up and fringed with the old porch rug! We helped her tie on the Witch's funny hat! And the scraggly gray wig! And the great horn-rimmed spectacles! ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott |
