"Steering gear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... home, only to learn that the family was away. Gladdened by the thought that they might be in the city, he walked miles, watching the curb before stores where they shopped, searching for their car, and he told himself that if he found it, nothing could separate him from the steering gear until he sped past all regulation straight to his ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... The roads in places are wellnigh impassable owing to frozen snow. Going down one steep hill to-day in our motor-car we all but turned completely over, as at a curve in the road the car-wheels, instead of answering to the steering gear, skidded on the frozen surface, and the car swung completely round on its axis, finishing by facing the opposite way to that in which we were travelling. Where the roads are not very slippery they are as hard as iron. A ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
... of the lungs; and a most unaccountable knock-knock-knocking in the engine; and the probable relation of middle-ear disease; and the perfectly positive symptoms of optic neuritis; and a damned funny squeak in the steering gear! ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... strong old boy," she said. "He lifted me as though I were a feather—I don't know now how I escaped. The steering gear went ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... the scouts could wink, it had roared past, its hood enveloped in blue flames and its driver bending low over the steering gear. ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... poop, where, under the awning, gleamed the brasses of the yacht-like fittings, the polished surfaces of the rails, the glass of the skylights. Right aft two seamen, busy cleaning the steering gear, with the reflected ripples of light running playfully up their bent backs, went on with their work, unaware of me and of the almost affectionate glance I threw at them in passing toward the ...
— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad
... said Tom from the wheel. "Spoke or two loose in his steering gear, that's all. Lucky I got to him in time, or we should have been ashore hard ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn
... made Rad act that way. But I'll set the automatic steering gear now, Mr. Damon, and then you ...
— Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers - or The Secret of Phantom Mountain • Victor Appleton |
