He landed neatly back on the handle-bars each time. From Wordnik.com. [The Rilloby Fair Mystery]
The spokes, handle-bars, and trimmings were all enameled black. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
Allan at the handle-bars, they were finally ready for the start to the. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
"That's about it," said the manager, standing up to polish the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat]
Cantwell spoke harshly, leaning upon the handle-bars: "Well! What's the idea?". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
He was a man of middle age, and he was clinging to the handle-bars of the machine. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Ellice stood watching him while with a borrowed spanner he adjusted the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
"Miranda can either ride on my shoulder or on the handle-bars, she doesn't mind which.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rilloby Fair Mystery]
Waiting not an instant the lad bent over his handle-bars and pedaled with all his force. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
The motor-cyclist bounced up in the air from the saddle, and nearly lost his hold on the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Then, looking as if he was going to burst, he took his bicycle by the handle-bars, and turned to Gladys and the other woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters]
The wind carried to Tom the sound of the explosions of the motor, and he could see the man clinging tightly to the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
There I ran at the handle-bars for a time, but at last I threw myself upon the sled among the furs, and pulled a parkie over me. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Night found the lone driver slipping, plunging, lurching ahead of the dogs, or shoving at the handle-bars and shouting at the dogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
If you saw The Golden Cavaliers last night, as you claimed, you must have had the TV set balanced on the handle-bars of your scooter. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
His arms were wrenched from jerking on the bridle, but he did not mind that much, and bent over the handle-bars to make up for lost time. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
I took the two children out on the sled upon the ice and pushed at the handle-bars until I was reeking with perspiration, afterwards giving. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Hands in position in front, as though grasping the handle-bars, running in place with lifting the knee high and pointing toe to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
That was when Varney's hands let go of the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
Meldon, gripping his handle-bars tightly, rode at a fast rate. From Wordnik.com. [The Simpkins Plot] Reference
Folsom, who had been heaving at the handle-bars all the way up the Dexter. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference
His hat was gone and his close-cropped head bent low over the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [The Panchronicon] Reference
He grasped his cycle by the handle-bars and raised it from its recumbent position. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
Colonel Witham, grasping one of the handle-bars, eyed the velocipede almost longingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill] Reference
Cap off, head up -- no crouching over the handle-bars like the Saturday afternoon shopmen!. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
The jetski was found filled with sand and seawater and its handle-bars had been ripped off. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A bicycle might as well try to define its young Miss by wriggling its handle-bars and ringing its bell. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
I groaned, my head over the handle-bars, every ounce of my weight first on one foot and then on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman] Reference
He rode boldly, with only one hand on the handle-bars, the other in the pocket of his white flannel cricketing trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Once a Week] Reference
The rest had benefited the doctor's knee, but walking was still painful and he needed the support of the handle-bars all day. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
Varney stepped out of the blackness, directly in front of it, and seized both handle-bars in fingers that gripped like a vise. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
Then the race was called, and a pistol shot sent the five young athletes bending low over their handle-bars spinning down the course. From Wordnik.com. [Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy] Reference
(such a name for a Siwash dog!) and myself in the traces, the doctor at the handle-bars. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
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