Wooden hobbyhorses evolved into velocipedes; velocipedes evolved into safety bicycles; safety bicycles evolved into automobiles. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I'm not sure I was referring to bike messenging in particular - I am aware there were no fleets of couriers on their new-fangled velocipedes and other 'running machines' darting along the cobblestone streets. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)
All the "OGs" were born antebellum and acquired their bike-handling skillz and street cred from riding velocipedes and p-fars. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
The city returned to the slower but more reliable modes of transport: carriages, horses, carts, camels, elephants, stagecoaches and, for the really nutty fitness fanatics, velocipedes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And it's been said that drivers in Paris have actually reacted to sharing the streets with velocipedes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Turner was managing the sale of these machines in Paris and heard of these novel modes of transport - velocipedes being built. ❋ M (2008)
When countrybound velocipedes, a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14 h). ❋ Unknown (2003)
Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The object of this invention is to obtain a more advantageous application of the propelling power than the ordinary cranks, to avoid the noise of pawls and ratchets, and to guard the velocipedes against being overturned should one of the rear wheels pass over an obstruction. ❋ Various (N/A)
And while the clerk was gone the sailor walked about, looking at some bicycles and velocipedes at the far end of the toy department. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
Then the sailor came back from having looked at the velocipedes, and the girl clerk brought a large sheet of paper. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
It is a naively drawn lithograph representing a trial of velocipedes in the Luxembourg Garden, at Paris, in 1818. ❋ Various (N/A)
It will be seen that in 1818 velocipedes were made of wood and were provided with two wheels -- one in front, and the other behind. ❋ Various (N/A)
The park was furnished with rustic seats and shade trees, frequently of immense size, branched above its smooth walks and promenades, where baby wagons, velocipedes and hobby horses on wheels could have uninterrupted sport. ❋ Mary E. Bradley Lane (N/A)
Away from milk wagons and children on velocipedes and the grocer calling up every morning for an order. ❋ Unknown (1916)
For now hansom cabs were wellnigh as extinct as velocipedes or sedan-chairs, he owned two motors, and, by the drollest turn, had money in four banks. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The Anchor, an inn of many gables, has fixed itself in the affections of bicyclists since the days when they rode velocipedes, and its black-beamed walls and passages hold drawings of strange souls mounted on wheels which would have scared Ixion. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)
If I could have had it with Mitch, if we could have spent it together for velocipedes -- and dogs, and sets of tools, for scroll saws, watches and whatever we wanted, and soda water, when we wanted it, and bananas, which we never had much because they cost ten cents apiece -- for anything, that would have been different. ❋ Edgar Lee Masters (1909)
