wheelwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wheelwork
Example Sentences
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He regarded each new person as a complicated piece of wheelwork, which it was the wise man's business to understand and not be angry with.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
In the first place, the work of the Constituent Assembly was not principally to perpetuate this wheelwork of useless royalty, placed out of complaisance to the people's eyes, in machinery which did not regulate it.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
Was man made a wheelwork to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
The awkward footsteps of this rough man have crushed to pieces the artificial wheelwork.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde
He is part of the rush in our social wheelwork, and yet he makes it move more slowly.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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