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 HugoContext Highlight 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 HugoContext Highlight 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.
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 HardyContext Highlight 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.
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.