See wheel around in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:",
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"text": "The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord.",
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"ref": "1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle”, in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1914, pages 130–131:",
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:",
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"text": "1834, “Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara” in The Quarterly Review, London: John Murray, Volume 52, August and November, 1834, p. 387,\nThe river of Cabool was crossed on a raft supported on inflated skins […] Its rapidity, formed into eddies, wheeled them round, and they had the agreeable satisfaction of being told that, if carried some way down, there was a whirlpool round which, if once enclosed in its circle, they might revolve, in hunger and giddiness, for a whole day."
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"ref": "1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., The Invaders and Other Stories, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., published 1853, pages 29–30:",
"text": "As soon as the crossing was effected, the general’s face suddenly took on an expression of deliberation and seriousness; he wheeled his horse around, and at full gallop rode across the wide forest-surrounded field which spread before us.",
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"text": "The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord.",
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},
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"ref": "1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., The Invaders and Other Stories, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., published 1853, pages 29–30:",
"text": "As soon as the crossing was effected, the general’s face suddenly took on an expression of deliberation and seriousness; he wheeled his horse around, and at full gallop rode across the wide forest-surrounded field which spread before us.",
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}
],
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