"Toothed wheel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... called Februa Hoffmanseggi, makes a noise, when flying away, like a rattle.) Several times when a pair, probably male and female, were chasing each other in an irregular course, they passed within a few yards of me; and I distinctly heard a clicking noise, similar to that produced by a toothed wheel passing under a spring catch. The noise was continued at short intervals, and could be distinguished at about twenty yards' distance: I am certain there is ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... a light in the sky that night of the soft midsummer gales, But the great man-bloaters snorted low, and the young 'uns sang like whales; And out laughed Sal (like a dog-toothed wheel was the laugh that Sal laughed she): "Now who's for a bride on the shady side of ...
— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman |
