What is "ferris"

Usage examples of "ferris".

I saw this pre-teen girl doing cartwheels on her front lawn, back and forth, slowly and sweetly, as if she were performing all those actions as absentmindedly as a Ferris wheel.

Vannier and Ferris to get into the lifeboat, called to McKinnon to cast off aft, and half-ran, half-stumbled up the heeling, slippery deck to where the girl and the soldier stood half-way between the aftercastle screen door and the ladder leading to the poop-deck above.

Another night-shattering fulmination sent a tongue of fire from sky to earth, and this one did, at last, lick the Ferris wheel, which lit up along every spoke and crossbeam, each cable a blazing filament, and for an instant it seemed that the huge machine was encrusted with jewels through which raced lambent reflections of flames.

Ferris, and Longleat is a feyther, and I wur one too afore I wur sent to that d--d gaol.

A moment later a gloom-shrouded figure moved out from beside a tent that housed one of the kootch shows, hurried across the concourse, slipped into the darkness on the far side of the Ferris wheel, no more than twenty feet away from me, reappeared in the moonlight by the Caterpillar.

During the flight, guards had taken turns beating them with their fists and clubs, not enough to injure them permanently, just to pass the time, Ferris had ordered his men to go easy on the captives because he had special plans for them.

Some of these pamphlets have had huge sales, especially the religio-patriotic ones, such as those of Mr Ferris, B.

Louise, and there was Cleon Ferris, black and gay and shorter than I am, who did lighting for concerts and musicals, and used to baby-sit me all the time.

The carnies had shut down the Ferris wheel, Dive Bomber, Tilt-a-Whirl, and other rides.

If that was the case, he had assisted me with the dead body and had pointed me toward the oncoming danger at the Ferris wheel solely because those goblin schemes directly affected carnies, the only people to whom he did owe allegiance in this secret war.

He must have glimpsed strangers, not carnies, who had undertaken Suspicious work at the Ferris wheel, and he must have shouted at them, unaware that they were not ordinary men.

But he was also aware that the council members would know much about goingson in Ariman, perhaps more than anyone—and he needed to learn what they knew, especially about Ferris.

The first person Jack saw upon it, standing there with his hands behind his back and looking down on his own dismasted ship, was Captain Ferris of the Hannibal.

At the opposite end of the plaza from the school was a small amusement park, with crazy chairs, a rink of bumper cars and a Ferris wheel that stood against the night like a rotting decoration.

I've never seen Ferris move so fast, though he didn't seem to hurry: he just got a lot more done, calling people out of the woodwork and signalling London and Monck, telling me to get to the Cedar Grove on South River Drive and make certain I was clean when I got there.