It will be an evil day for the world when the nave shall leave its place and contend for that of the felloe. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
"A fine old felloe," said I-- "full of fun, well informed, convivial, age about sixty, well preserved, splendid face --". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
You do not disrespect and hate felloe democrats ... and figure that in the end it won't matter - they will vote DEM anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's new job: Persuading diehard fans to back Obama] Reference
But the Señorita must be waked at once and take the road with Dicco, moving towards the best, or weakest, bars of the cage; for, though the net was spread, the great spider himself was not yet amove down its spokes and round the felloe. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Never, over nave or felloe, did thy axe strike such a stroke. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
He had knocked one felloe off the rim and was hitting at the spokes. From Wordnik.com. [Laramie Holds the Range] Reference
A felly is the outward rim of a wheel: it was formerly written felloe. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
She charged the wagon, split a spoke and a felloe with her horn, and then left. From Wordnik.com. [The Personal Life of David Livingstone] Reference
On the earth, or felloe side of the triangle, there was no fire; but the other sides were burning fiercely. From Wordnik.com. [Captured by the Navajos] Reference
A thin wagon-bow, or barrel-hoops, may then be wrapped around the outside of the felloe, and secured with small nails or tacks. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference
Occasionally there is a fourth circle, which seems to represent a metal tire outside the felloe, whereby it was guarded from injury. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
The rose was of living light, and seemed alive itself, every age and every condition, in an eager crowd, formed the nave and spokes and felloe. From Wordnik.com. [The Well of Saint Clare] Reference
When it was a little more than half closed the hole in the roof had become triangular, resembling the space between two spokes and a felloe of a wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Captured by the Navajos] Reference
Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Then as the motion grew faster, these circles disappeared one by one; the widest vanished first, because the speed was swiftest near the felloe of the wheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Well of Saint Clare] Reference
Psychologist Avenue, led us directly to a semicircular civic center at the water front, from which the principal avenues radiated toward the outer wall like the spokes of a wheel from the hub toward the felloe. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on Venus]
The only remedy in such cases is to cut the felloe with a saw on opposite sides, taking out two pieces of such dimensions that the reduced circumference will draw back the spokes into their proper places and make them snug. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference
In (Ezekiel 1: 18) it is rendered twice "rings," and margin "strakes," an old word apparently used for the nave (hub) of a wheel and also more probably for the felloe or the tire, as making the streak or stroke upon the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Cut a felloe three spans across for a waggon of ten palms’ width. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Felician, Father (fe-lish'an), felicity (fe-lis'i-ti), happiness. fell (fel), a rocky hill. felloe (fel'o), the outside rim of a wheel supported by the spokes. felon (fel'un) one guilty of a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Ohai, felloe Cali-dwellurz. From Wordnik.com. [Karate cat split entire - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Kuz noe won lykz eh felloe wif eh soshul dahzeez. From Wordnik.com. [If you’re gonna be one of us - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
A second felloe was tracking uncertainly. From Wordnik.com. [Laramie Holds the Range] Reference
Ahem….mai felloe amerkins…. From Wordnik.com. [Goldfishie?? come back! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
A second felloe. From Wordnik.com. [Laramie Holds the Range] Reference
In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference
In hub, tire, or felloe, in spring or thill. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, 20. From Wordnik.com. [Deacon's Masterpiece] Reference
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