Steinway lever

Usage examples of pedal.

He remembered the instructor at the air club speak about a Civil War airman who had short legs and had small blocks of wood attached to the pedals of his machine in order to be able to reach them.

I listened to footsteps on stone as Alem went up front and crawled onto one of the two pedaling saddles.

We covered the six kilometers in ten minutes and turned off the saltway onto a paved ramp that led through a cluster of homes -- white stone this time, not adobe -- and then Alem and the other man furled the sail and pedaled the windcycle slowly along the cobblestone street that ran between the homes and the canal-river.

The bicyclette had the pedals fixed to drive the back wheel by the ingenious use of a chain and sprocket wheel, and so was not, strictly speaking, a bicycle at all.

Jana saw was a blur of tattoos and black leather before she jammed her foot to the gas pedal so fast that Cavin had to grab hold of the dash to keep his balance.

The later form was the so-called cithara, the most common shape of which is that made familiar to all by the pedal piece of the square pianoforte.

The thaw had set in and this time as Skullion pedalled out to Coft the fields around him were piebald.

He snicked the Derailleur gears up five sprockets and stood on the pedals, swooping down towards the city centre on the traffic-free road, the cool morning air chilling the sweat of fear that had drenched him in that terrifying moment when it looked as if his well-laid plan had gone wrong.

She mashed down the left rudder pedal, sending the Devastator into a slow, counter-clockwise spin.

Because one time the soft pedal went all queer because Cissie Dewry put her foot on it, so we always use it gentle-like.

We pedaled over the Dhobi Khola bridge and shot by the Central Immigration building before I could think of anything to yell that might have brought the crowd there into the street.

And the two of them sang the Bicycling Song, as Ern called it, at the tops of their voices, pedalling in strict time to the rhythm of the lines!

In the middle of the night, when you get called for the fact that your gomer now has a blood pressure the same as an amoeba, you kick this pedal.

His was built to cycle in, with extra gussets in the groin, and wider in the upper leg, but when I pedaled, my inner thighs rubbed against the suit, with my underwear not much protection.

Fifteen steps up from the second level, in one smooth motion, Jarry put the ordinary down, mounted it holding immobile the pedals with his feet, swung the Rhino Express off his shoulder, and rode the last crashing steps down, holding back, then pedaling furiously as his giant wheel hit the floor.