axletree

How To Use axletree In A Sentence

• Perhaps it was well for his cattle that the axletree gave way and the chaise of course overturned, before they had travelled one-third part of the stage. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• Maybe it was sight of the axletree, maybe it was just the roiling confusion of his life, but he felt fury rise in him like that he felt in the dreams where he swung a sword. Lord of the Isles
• Then some more native parties in short kimonos that showed their aboriginees punctured the near-horizon, and me and High had to skip back into Father Axletree's private boudoir. Options
• He was alone again in his head; the laughing figure who'd measured the six guards for a single stroke of the massive axletree had gone back to wherever it was that he watched and waited. Lord of the Isles
• The trunk and main branches, such as Weihe River and Fenhe River, were the axletree of economic development in the Yellow River basin.
• In front of their line, at considerable intervals from each other, were stationed the chariots called scythed chariots; they had scythes projecting obliquely from the axletree, and others under the driver's seat, pointing to the earth, for the purpose of cutting through whatever came in their way; and the design of them was to penetrate and divide the ranks of the The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
• The driver composedly shouted to us to alight; the hole was only deep enough to sink the vehicle to the axletree. The Englishwoman in America
• Now it was only half over the wheels, now it hid the axletree, and now the coach sank down in it almost to the windows. American Notes for General Circulation
• Garric had hung the oil lamp on the axletree leaning near the stable door; the cartwheels were beside it. Lord of the Isles
• I almost wish I could threaten you with a fever, or something serious; but I see you are as sound as that 'axletree' our friend spoke of the other day. Say and Seal, Volume I