He would lie on his stomach on the little contrivance which the Swiss call a luge, and which consists of naught but three bits of wood and two steel-clad runners, and would course down the perilous curves at twenty miles an hour.
"The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns"
Arnold Bennett
Until the Captain came, this was regarded as dashing, because most people were content to sit on the luge and travel legs-foremost instead of head-foremost.
"The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns"
Arnold Bennett
And the group, growing as luge after luge arrived at the end of the track, seemed to give itself up to mirth, to the exclusion of even a proper curiosity about the nature of the Captain's damage.
"The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns"
Arnold Bennett