awheel
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post.
From Time Magazine Archive
Which one of us, whether afoot, awheel, on horseback, or in comfortable carriage, has not whiled away the time by glancing about?
From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft
Our young couples found society awheel valid as that abiding under permanent roof.
From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson
Who his trimmed enough carriages to set all New Hampshire awheel, and who still practises his trade in Exeter.
From The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
The pity is that these thorough-going admirers of days as dead as those of the Pharaohs were so largely “mute, inglorious Miltons,” and have left so small a record of their stirring times awheel.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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