1 This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and which was supported by two huge wheels.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 2 This is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is Progress.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 3 Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XI. 4 Her reason for standing so dead still as the pivot of this circle of heath-country was just as obscure.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 5 As he walked on slowly, timing his pace to theirs, he watched Corley's head which turned at every moment towards the young woman's face like a big ball revolving on a pivot.
6 I'm not properly pivoted that way.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 4 7 He went pale, with a sort of fear, when he saw Connie lifting the inert legs of the man in her arms, into the other chair, Clifford pivoting round as she did so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 5