Sentence Examples

1. When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turning the stone so as to make its repelling extremity point directly downwards.
2. Then I wriggled through the axle hole into the old mill and tumbled on to a bed of chaff.
3. In the middle of the concave side there is a groove twelve inches deep, in which the extremities of the axle are lodged, and turned round as there is occasion.
4. The grey mill stones were still, the mechanism disengaged and the axle that went through the ceiling was stationary.
5. So pretty quickly, any small hole got wider and wider and deeper and deeper until it became a pothole that could break an axle.
6. While hurrying to Winchester Manor the rear axle clip snapped clean in half and the carriage catapulted.
7. Dean and Marcus were running late because the front axle on his buggy had broken.