Had you not treadmills to your hand, and all manner of new prison disciplines?
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope
It has broken into the gardens, into the arts, the resting-places of nations, and with its factories to learn to love in, its treadmills to learn to sing in, it girdles its belt of drudgery around the world and carries bricks and mortar to the clouds.
"The Lost Art of Reading"
Gerald Stanley Lee
But at this time, with the shutting of the door on the treadmills of exercise, the young assistant master arranged his warm wrapper and slippers at the side of his bed and went to sleep with one ear raised.
"The Varmint"
Owen Johnson F. R. Gruger