How To Use Boneshaker In A Sentence
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See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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By 1863, attaching cranks and pedals to the front wheel of the hobby horse had produced the velocipede, commonly known as the boneshaker.
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A cleaned up adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, this centres on Sweetheart, a boneshaker of a bus rattling over the 'washboard roads' of Southern California.
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Old Chinese boneshaker bicycles can be hired for a pittance, and the area is less hilly than much of Xishuangbanna.
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It has lavish 1920s costumes and boneshaker cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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By 1863, attaching cranks and pedals to the front wheel of the hobby horse had produced the velocipede, commonly known as the boneshaker.
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An old boneshaker of a car was tearing along the Chicago-Cleveland highway at an incredible speed.
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There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
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Cherie is the author of the great steampunk novel, Boneshaker.
Cherie Priest on BookBanter « The BookBanter Blog
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I ride an old boneshaker-style bicycle, the type with an uncomfortable saddle and double panniers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Clockwork Century is a new website for the steampunk world set forth in Cherie Priest's forthcoming novel Boneshaker. [via Adventures in Reading]
SF Tidbits for 7/12/09
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It has lavish 1920s costumes and boneshaker cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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I ride an old boneshaker-style bicycle, the type with an uncomfortable saddle and double panniers.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
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The boneshaker was further refined by James Starley in the 1870's.
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He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes of the 1880s.
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He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
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It's something of a boneshaker on the road but comes into its own on dirt tracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Rover still had solid rubber tyres and the smaller wheels meant that it was still a boneshaker which required springs.
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He takes us from the French pushbike of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
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that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker
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It's something of a boneshaker on the road but comes into its own on dirt tracks.
Times, Sunday Times