From the Champs-Elysées, one of 10 great spokes emanating forth from the Arc de Triomphe, the entire geometry of the landscape draws you towards the eye like hollow of the Arc.
Nearby, at the head of deep and quiet valleys like Eskdale and Wasdale, the central massif of England's fabled Lake District builds like the hub of a great spoked wheel around mountains like Scafell Pike and Great Gable, Pillar and Bowfell, the tallest and toughest — though hardly Alpine — assemblage of peaks in the land.
Thanks to its bilateral deals, the EU is an export and investment hub with preferential access to markets in a great many spokes.
At ten miles, the great revolving spokes of light, succeeding each other at intervals of five seconds, gave the most distinctive character possible…it was a most beautiful optical phenomenon".It was the stars that first helped sailors navigate as they ventured out at night in the world's earliest leaky boats.
It was not a look that spoke of great joy, or enormous passion.
His design was a great improvement over radially spoked wheels and is still in use.
In applied medicine a great variety of stems, spokes, screws, pins made of pure metal and alloys are widely applied for purposes of orthopedic and trauma surgery operations.
One spoke of the "overwhelming terror" he had experienced; another spoke of the "great fright" he and his wife and child had felt in their third-floor apartment.
I mean, in the world of writing people, aside from the eccentric Gide, who, recently converted to Communism, has held a meeting for snobs and international Communists, without the least success; aside from the Jews of England and America, but they are just disturbed by anti-Semitism, which is a little spoke in the great wheel of bestiality.
About a year ago my 8-year-old spoke with gravity and great conviction that he "wanted to be just like his friends".
