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• The departure was not unduly prolonged.[...]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
• Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
• Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
• According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.
• [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
• Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
• The vulture wheeled above us.
• As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
• The beetle wheels her droning flight.
• Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled / Her motions, as the great first mover's hand / First wheeled their course.
• — Roue de la moralité tourne tourne tourne, et dis-nous de quoi il retourne.