"Bicyclist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... planks of the wooden walk. The June night was brilliant above with countless points of light. A gentle wind drew in shore from the lake, stirring the tall rushes in the adjacent swamps. Occasionally a bicyclist sped by, the light from his lantern wagging like a crazy firefly. The night was strangely still; the clamorous railroads were asleep. Far away to the south a solitary engine snorted at intervals, indicating the effort of some untrained hand ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... letting go, causing the aeroplane to cant over in a manner that was alarming to the onlookers. But long practice with the aeroplane in all kinds of gusty weather had developed in Smith an instinct for the right means of meeting an emergency of this nature. Like a bicyclist, he did the right thing without thinking. The vessel righted itself at a touch on the warping lever, and in two or three seconds she was sailing rapidly away from ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... the bicycle tipping to the left, he naturally responds by leaning to the right, and even by turning the wheel to the right. Result unsatisfactory—strained position and further tipping to the left. As the bicyclist is about to fall, he saves himself by a response which he has previously learned in balancing on his feet; he extends his foot to the left, which amounts to a response to the ground on the left as a good ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth
... as though no bicyclist, or motor-cyclist would have chosen this road to travel after dark. Yet there was a narrow path at the side— just wide enough for Ruth and Doctor Davison to walk abreast, and Reno to trot by the girl's side ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson |
