big wheel

But, by all appearances, Hirni himself relishes playing the role of a political big wheel.

"East by nothe, sir," repeated the quartermaster in mechanical tones, spinning the big wheel to the left.

But just then Lulu felt something pulling her down toward where the big wheel went around and around, and she got frightened.

The old leveller, Nature, is at her eternal work of rotation, turning the big wheel round.

I've slid over on the big wheel myself, lots of times, and gone all the way around, under water as well.

And then the big wheel began to turn—surr, surr, surr—always quicker and quicker.