The girl who had played the accompaniments sat at the piano and placed a decided foot on the loud
pedal. She played a dreamy waltz, marking the time with the bass, while with the right hand she `tiddled' in alternate octaves.
Of course the boys could charge up it quicker than we could
pedal, but I even heard the voice of their stout instructor growing louder through the mist.
His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the
pedals. He was flying like a racer.
Romantic possibilities of accident lurked in the worn thread of the screw that adjusted the saddle, in the precarious
pedals, in the loose-knit chain, in the handle-bars, above all in the brakes and tyres.
Defiantly, with her foot on the loud
pedal, she struck--almost slapped--the keys once more.
Often I longed to do something hysterically desperate, to rouse Raffles and bring the street about our ears; once I did bring him about mine by striking a single note on the piano, with the soft
pedal down.
Powell as if a
pedal had been put down, "only it shall take a little time.
It had evidently been newly tuned and put in apple- pie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright
pedals.
He found the
pedals and tried them, ran his yellow hands up and down the keys a few times, tinkling off scales, then turned to the company.
Come, in due time, organist and bellows-boy, peeping down from the red curtains in the loft, fearlessly flapping dust from books up at that remote elevation, and whisking it from stops and
pedals. Come sundry rooks, from various quarters of the sky, back to the great tower; who may be presumed to enjoy vibration, and to know that bell and organ are going to give it them.
Thus, manufacturers are focused on developing lightweight components such as accelerator
pedal modules.