Surely the cyclometer is a Darwinite development of a spider, who is always at circles, and always begins again when his web is brushed away. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Then he went back to the bike and checked the cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
They've already got a way to use your iPhone as your cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Conspiracy!] Reference
We always called it a mile; but the last time he was home on leave Freddy measured it with his new cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
An ordinary cyclometer is nothing but an arrangement for counting these revolutions, but it is graduated in such a manner that it gives at once the distance in miles. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
I receive a letter from a cyclometer who understands that. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
The log worked on the same principal as a bicycle cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference
About that time the weather got too wet and my cyclometer died. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Now you just need to do a Picture in Picture with your cyclometer!!. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Cyclist] Reference
I bought a new cyclometer, a different brand, and set it on the dining room table. From Wordnik.com. Reference
What I finally accomplished on my birthday, with Stan's help (mounting the new cyclometer on my bike.). From Wordnik.com. Reference
Fact is, just got my wheel -- that's it over there by the door -- pneumatic tires, tool-chest, cyclometer, lamp -- all for a hun. From Wordnik.com. [The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces] Reference
Greenland my dead reckoning was the compass course, and the reading of my odometer, a wheel with a cyclometer registering apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club] Reference
That signals "central" again, and she withdraws the plug from both holes and pushes another button, which connects with a meter made like a bicycle cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers] Reference
Sometimes a cyclometer persuades a skipper who has made land in the wrong place that the astronomers are in fault, for using a wrong measure of the circle; and the skipper thinks it a very comfortable solution!. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
He rode in a chaise over the road; and a machine which he had invented was attached to the chaise; and it was certainly the first cyclometer that went on that road, over which so many cyclometers have passed during the last five years. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
These thoughts came to me while sitting there on the grass slopes, rather than while speeding along the solitary road which snakes across them to the mountains, because the great gift of the bicycle consists to my mind in something apart from mere rapid locomotion; so much so, indeed, that those persons forego it, who scorch along for mere exercise, or to get from place to place, or to read the record of miles on their cyclometer. From Wordnik.com. [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference
A cyclometer (cycle-meter). From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
It is singular that no cyclometer maintains that. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
From cyclometer (Specialized TurboPro). From Wordnik.com. [MTBGuru.com] Reference
Franklin, quoted, 53, 181; fairs encouraged by, 191; advertisement of, 292-293; as postmaster, 333; set milestones, 335; cyclometer of, 335-336; on canals, 353; in sedan-chair, 356. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
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