"Steering wheel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot from the engine control since the previous sunset in the ...
— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings
... the last ambulance seemed to be ill; his head lay on the shoulder of a Sister of Charity who had taken the steering wheel. ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers
... high-crowned road was slippery with sun-melted ice, Coulter noted that the steering wheel responded heavily. Then he saw suddenly that it was smaller than he'd remembered and made of black rubber instead of the almond-hued plastic of his new convertible. And his light costly fabric gloves had become black leather, lined ...
— A World Apart • Samuel Kimball Merwin
... for me, since by a chance I had been born here, and since here my father and then my mother had died. I was glad I had run the gauntlet and had reached Paris to do my part in a mighty work. An ambulance drove heavily past me, and with a thrill I wondered how soon I should bend over such a steering wheel, within sound ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... instrument that draws the curve is a three-wheeled cart of lead, whose front wheel, F, is mounted, not as a caster, but like the steering wheel of a bicycle. When such a cart is moved, the front wheel, F, can only move in the direction of its own plane, whatever be the position of the cart; if, therefore, the cart is so moved that F is in the line, ee, and at the same time has its plane parallel ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
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