| 单词 | motorcar |
| 例句 | No one in this age of telephones and motorcars could believe that giants seven or eight feet high existed in crowded Surrey. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The crowd clapped and whistled like they thought Grandpa was giving motorcars away. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was like she couldn’t believe we really had a motorcar unless she could go to ride or sit and look at it, one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Two shiny black rickshaws had arrived and behind them a large black motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the first to reach the motorcar, but the congregation quickly crowded around. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Instantly, the streets became raging rivers filled with wreckage—chunks of wood and metal and glass, overturned motorcars and wagons. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z She could get hit by a motorcar—that happened all the time. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “What sort of flying motorcars do you have?” asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “If I’d tried to get everything I ever wanted, Will, I’d have asked for a diamond necklace and a motorcar and—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Women began to pour out of the motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, near our office, I saw an elderly white woman whose motorcar was sandwiched between two cars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wu Tsing had allowed the new motorcar to be sent to the railway station, but of course that was not enough to carry them all back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His friend who owns the motorcar set off at top speed, full out and going like the clappers, no lights as usual except the waning gibbous moon on the rise. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Then came the cavalcade: mounted policemen and a large open motorcar in which was seated a genial, kindly-looking man with a wreath of roses around his neck. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Uh, do you think there’s a chance we could maybe have a ride in your motorcar?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Horse wagons clattered and squeaked, and motorcars honked. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z All the servants crowded around the motorcar, looking at their faces in the polished metal, admiring the curtained windows, the velvet seats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’ll be no fine motorcars and new clothes. Then I know my people will be happier.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I knew Miss Love would love to have a motorcar, probably more than my mother wanted to go to New York City. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Wagons, motorcars, and parts of buildings swirled around them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “No motorcars, very few telephones, not many electric lights. Even though it was the beginning of the twentieth century, you still very much felt the influence of the nineteenth century.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She’d be a statue till she had to scratch or something, then come outside for a few minutes and talk to folks about the latest in motorcar fashions. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As I contemplated all this grandeur, an enormous motorcar rumbled through the western gate and the men sitting in the shade immediately arose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds passed off, though, and we had only one puncture, and everybody at Cudn Temp’s like to had a fit about the motorcar. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So in this clumsy way, my mother found out that Wu Tsing had taken his fourth concubine, who was actually just an afterthought, a foolish bit of decoration for his new motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So behind the motorcar came a dozen or so rickshaws, bouncing up and down like crickets following a large shiny beetle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I saw the servants reaching into the backseat of the motorcar and a man was slowly being lifted by both arms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Likely she was curious to know what happened, or maybe she just wanted to look at a motorcar up close. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Every passerby, every motorcar, every alteration in stance caught their attention and was commented on. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One of the Commodore’s men steps from the motorcar, still hatless, and asks where his could be. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Lessons to Last a Lifetime 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Now it seems to purr along like a luxury motorcar. He has the chops and he has the temperament: Tony Hall ought to be a brilliant director general of the BBC 2012-11-22T13:09:00Z Second place receives a lovely and useful addition to any fine home or motorcar: It’s a winsome plush monkey that dispenses tissues from its red-rimmed butt. Style Invitational Week 1369: Shoot some oops — jokes about typos 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Shiny, strapless frocks came with built-in mini motorcars at the hem; other longer sheaths had high heels caught in their torsos, and jutting from one hip. The Gangs of Fashion 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The arrival of the Maud in Seattle occasioned another flurry of stories, including one about its Siberian crew experiencing their first motorcar and elevator rides. Seattle exhibit celebrates Amundsen's conquest of South Pole 2011-12-12T06:02:27Z To try to make a few pennies, Nucky and his friends hide in the Malicky reeds and wait for the passing motorcars to go by. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Lessons to Last a Lifetime 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Life-size dolls Soldiers Trees A baron and baroness Truly Scrumptious says that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is “a curious name for a motorcar”. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang quiz 2011-03-24T09:19:18Z This is, after all, an artist who subtitled his sonata’s fast middle movement “12 CV; 8 cyl; 5,000 revs,” after a motorcar’s capabilities. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Zelenskyy nixed the usual motorcar parade to walk among the throng that elected him, taking selfies with people along the way. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Alan Barrington uses the occasion to arrange a fatal motorcar accident for the man who drove his best friend to commit suicide, or so he believes. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z In 1922, while pursuing mining opportunities in Canada, Treat attempted to turn his motorcar around on a narrow mountain road and wound up plunging into a precipice. End of the line at Golden Gardens, ca. 1908 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z He crossed the street, ignoring the honking motorcar that swerved around him. I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of motorcars dating back from the 1930s to 1990s went on display for the return of the popular Vintage Wheels car rally. Dozens of vintage cars on show at Weston-super-Mare vintage car rally 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The only English word he could muster was “motorcar,” hoping someone would drive him to see a commander. Kenneth Rowe, who piloted North Korean warplane to freedom, dies at 90 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “I shouted ‘Motorcar, motorcar, motorcar,’ which was about the only English I remembered from high school, hoping that someone would bring an automobile to drive me to headquarters.” Kenneth Rowe, Who Defected From North Korea With His Jet, Dies at 90 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Remember, though, that the first motorcars were considered noisy, unreliable and dangerous – hugely inferior, technologically, to the horse. ‘We’re going to the skies and stars!’ The man building our jetpack future – in tribute to his Dad 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z “How about I call Dr. Jay and he’ll give you a ride home. You’ve never been in his motorcar, have you?” I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think that women’s liberation, female suffrage, probably wouldn’t have happened, if it hadn’t been for the motorcar,” he opined. Brexit Will Bring a Baby Boom, Boris Johnson Promises 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Soon, a racing motorcar with four men inside drew Bayer’s attention. From the Archives: Oscar Bayer, 1925 shootout hero 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Wainwright likened its effect on crime to that of the motorcar in the 1920s and 30s, when suddenly criminals could escape at speed and take advantage of new markets. Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z South of the arch, under awnings and accompanied by a horse-drawn wagon and newfangled motorcar, The Leader dry-goods store promoted periodic “fire sales” of damaged goods as low as 10 cents on the dollar. The Lumber Exchange was a center for commerce in early 1900s Seattle 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Fuzzy pictures—men lifting him off the dock, the inside of Dr. Jay’s motorcar, the white walls and white sheets of the hospital, unsmiling doctors shaking their heads, a pretty nurse with a soft voice. I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z Imagine 100,000 people lining Pennsylvania Avenue NW and cheering as nearly 200 gaily decorated motorcars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles rolled down the street, each bedecked in Old Glory and fragrant bouquets and garlands. Perspective | In 1909, The Post sponsored an auto parade 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Like motorcars at the curb, cameras by then were nearly commonplace. St. James Cathedral lost its dome in a colossal Seattle snowfall (but now the acoustics are better) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z However, the rise of the motorcar alongside more people going abroad on holiday contributed to its decline. The endangered buildings saved from ruin 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In post-war Britain, more disposable income, rising standards of living, and the suburban housing boom solidified the pram’s place in society: just as father needed his motorcar, mother needed her pram. Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z They include three student drives and three ride-and-observe sessions inside Henry Ford’s motorcar for the masses. Museum in Michigan brings Model T driving to the masses 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Along with the explosion of the motorcar in the early 20th century came paved surfaces. What would an entirely flood-proof city look like? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The house represents the England of the past, threatened by a modern world in motion where motorcars speed people through a landscape they have no time to appreciate. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Or the four motorcars that reached the intersection about the same time? A collision of clues in one packed photo 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z BMW workers making engines and the Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars plan to strike over plans to close their final salary pension scheme. UK BMW workers back strike over pensions - BBC News 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead of carrying motorcars, the old bent may endure as a gateway, where people enter the Arboretum on foot or bicycles. An old Highway 520 crossbeam could be ‘urban ruins’ honoring anti-freeway activists 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr Toad was notable for his vanity and his tendency to drive his motorcar into the ditch. Trump's first week was a crusade against everything. But we returned the favor 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Goose No. 5 is the only Rio Grande Southern motorcar that regularly runs excursions through the mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. Galloping Goose gearing up for winter trips 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z In this photo, we also discover two electric trolleys, but no motorcars, which were still rare. Pike was the main street of early Seattle’s north end, and the best route uphill 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z This allowed them to construct molecular devices a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, including switches, motors, shuttles and even something resembling a motorcar. 'Nano-machines' win European trio chemistry Nobel prize 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z And on these excursions, members operate railroad motorcars, or “Speeders” as the vehicles are also called, on railroads across the U.S. and Canada. Nonprofit uses motorcars for yearly railway excursions 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Given that this is in the midst of the Great Depression, Third Avenue seems surprisingly rife with motorcars. What development? One Belltown block hasn’t changed much in 80 years 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z From the evidence of the motorcars, we began our search in photos from late May 1911, and we were soon rewarded. With a little detective work, two halves of a century-old picture come together 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It was, quite possibly, the first rearview mirror on a motorcar. At Indianapolis 500, Innovation Began With a Look Back 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Afterwards, he thought about that moment – the indomitable motorcar paying no heed to the fragile two-wheeler – as a miniature of the power dynamics in daily life, a subject that has occupied his attention for years. How modern power works: less Game of Thrones, more Black Lives Matter 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z For Bob Wonderling of Lake Villa, Illinois, as a child, he would watch as small motorcars passed through the railway in his hometown. Nonprofit uses motorcars for yearly railway excursions 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Traditional residential blocks and narrow streets were deemed unhealthy and suppressive, and the utopian vision was of streets in the sky and grand boulevards for the motorcar. Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist 'utopia' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The parade, led by Kavanaugh’s marching band, included a long line of motorcars and “at least 400 Ballard citizens” carrying picks and shovels. With a little detective work, two halves of a century-old picture come together 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It is a well-known story: A quirky tinkerer rolls a rusted old car into his workshop, casts around for some parts, and emerges — honk, honk! — with a magical motorcar. Sgt. Pepper Builds a Real-Life Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Long Island 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z His affluent background allowed him to pursue his hobbies and indulge his passion for motorcars and sport, recording the modern age with his camera. Lartigue's life in colour - BBC News 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z As if Bentley motorcars weren't heavy enough, the British marque is letting customers install bespoke "stone veneer technology" in their cars. Bentley will install actual rock inside your car 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Apparently digital devices are ruining our youth, just the way that rock music ruined their parents, and television ruined their parents and motorcars ruined theirs. Are Touch Screens Ruining Our Children? 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Billionaires, Pryor said, acquire “London property in the same way that they acquire expensive watches or high-powered motorcars.” London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z In 1921 as a brilliant young chemist at General Motors he discovered that adding the compound tetra-ethyl lead made engines run more efficiently, eliminating the uncontrolled knocking of early motorcars. The fatal attraction of lead 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z “They’re trying to repair an old motorcar, but what they need is a new engine.” O.E.C.D. Calls for Coordinated Fight Against Corporate Tax Avoidance 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The rise of the motorcar was seen as so inevitable that dual carriageways were controversially constructed through traditional neighbourhoods. The era of radical concrete 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z When you watch humans racing, be they on foot or bikes, in boats or motorcars, there is usually a clock in the corner of your screen. Humans have got much faster... so why haven't horses? 2014-04-02T15:00:34Z Mark my word: A combination airplane and motorcar is coming. Flying car dream is becoming reality 2013-10-31T00:57:59Z He was the first Indian to own an aircraft and was also an avid and early motorcar enthusiast who owned and travelled in a motorcade of up to 20 Rolls Royce cars. Patiala maharaja's cutlery for sale 2013-07-04T10:22:49Z The motorcar is plastic, it is pink and it is branded by a well-known doll whose breasts are bigger than her feet. Shopping for Toys with a Feminist Mom 2013-05-11T05:15:00Z Its brand is known for celebrity endorsers like Han Han, a motorcar racer and prolific blogger. Suited-Up Online: Why China's Fashionista Websites Aim High (And Low) 2013-01-31T03:19:19Z Built to be traversed not on foot but in the motorcar. Brasilia: Does it work as a city? 2012-12-07T01:03:24Z But you still saw thousands and thousands of bicycles in those days, as opposed to motorcars, and very few Westerners. Why China can't be beaten at novelty cuckoo clocks 2012-11-09T00:01:56Z There were townsmen in motorcars, sturdy farmers on motor-cycles, waggons, and carts, backwoodsmen on bicycles and on foot. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z And I'd give you a motorcar of your own to get about in and pay your visits; and there are good stables if you want to ride. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Exactly opposite to the front door stood a motorcar of antique design and dilapidated appearance. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z There is very little in this motor that is common to the standard type of vertical motorcar engine. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z He saw the effects of mass famine and what he considered un-Socialist practices like the auction of an old Ford motorcar confiscated from aristocrats. Letter from Europe: In Russia, a Summer Harmony 2011-08-15T11:28:51Z Town planners certainly thought that way, and declined to design for anything other than motorcars. 19th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads 2011-08-15T06:00:01Z But before it arrived Vita had left her home with her maid, Francella, in a strange motorcar, for a destination unnamed. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z They all waved aprons and caps until the motorcar was out of sight. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z The little girls climbed down a bank into a road which—had they known it—would have taken them out into the more important highway the motorcar was on. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z “Wherever you are, we will all get out of our motorcars, we will all stand outside our buildings,” Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said to reporters today. New Zealand Pauses to Remember Victims of Christchurch Quake 2011-03-01T00:29:24Z Norton turned his head and saw what appeared at first sight to be the dark grey body of a motorcar. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Among the objects are the last remaining motorcar from the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to a model of Sir Edwin Lutyens' design for Liverpool's catholic cathedral, which was never built. In your Liverpool homes 2011-01-30T08:24:36Z In 1931, after an unhappy experience on New York's Fifth Avenue, he wrote about what it was like to be hit by a motorcar. Winston Churchill archive to go online 2010-07-28T23:14:00Z At first, it's the railroads carving through the landscape, but as you travel north you encounter the first confused telephone users bellowing into handsets, and later, the first production line motorcars. Red Dead Redemption: hands-on with the final code 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z It is not often that we get such hybrid words in earlier English, though to-day they are becoming common in the case of new words such as motorcar, speedometer, airplane, waterplane, automobile, etc. Stories from Tagore That's when a motorcar snorts in his ear; a street-car comes at him ears back, teeth bare, and tail a-waving; and a lady axes him what time the twelve o'clock train leaves. A Man in the Open In time perhaps they would learn to collapse steel bridges, sabotage rails, perforate the engines of motorcars if these should prove to be menaces to their race. The Brain There was some perfunctory grief, though in each case the funeral was one of the new-fashioned kind, marked alike by tearlessness and the use of motorcars. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Has any one met a rich man who denied himself a motorcar to keep a genius? Pot-Boilers A tall, dark man of military aspect loomed out of the mist, and, behind him, at the curbstone, the outline of a big motorcar was dimly visible. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales I’m sure Rash Allerton is as nearly an elemental as one can be, and still belong to clubs and drive in motorcars.” The Dust Flower In his "Song of Speed," Henley has demonstrated that the motorcar, mechanical, modern, useful, may even be material for poetry. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life These were in the middle of the road, when a motorcar, moving at high speed, turned a corner a short distance away and ran rapidly down upon them. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Who 's got your motorcar at home now? Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir Small concern is it to mine host of the local inn, who is somewhat off the beaten track of motorcars, as to what really constitutes a garage. The Automobilist Abroad As she lay, thinking, she saw a large motorcar coming along the drive through the park. Patty's Friends The woman motorcar driver has made her appearance in the zone of the army. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 As he spoke, the gates were opened and a motorcar drove through. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns With a view to doing his work thoroughly he hired a motorcar and made a tour of some of the more picturesque parts of the country. Lady Bountiful He walked, hat in hand, towards the stranger in the motorcar. General John Regan In the modern world, it would make gas-turbine engines practical for locomotives and motorcars. Long Ago, Far Away Away outside we caught the distant hoot of a motorcar. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 As they passed the great grey motorcar, Max lightly dropped the note he was carrying on to the seat which Schenk had just been occupying. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Shapeless women lolling in six thousand dollar motorcars. A Book of Burlesques She gave the stranger one glance of half contemptuous pity and then looked at the motorcar. General John Regan No farmhouse was in sight to which the motorcar might have gone. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Hubbard And so be able to accumulate more motorcars. Theft A Play In Four Acts An occasional motorcar driven by a soldier-chauffeur chugs up the gravel road to the chateau and from it emerge earnest-faced officers whose visits are usually brief. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers France has a type of the completely enclosed armored motorcar which affords its crew unobstructed view on all sides through lattice panels. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights They were standing together near the motorcar in high debate as to whether the price of the filly was to be �30 or �34. General John Regan To her dismay she saw a big motorcar coming round the corner of the house. The Terrible Twins He was assured that his father would borrow or hire a motorcar, and follow in it. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World It was only a little distance to the bank, but Lewis insisted on making the journey in a motorcar which stood at the curb. The Hidden Places There were no snipers when the motorcars returned. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The photograph on page 120 illustrates the control wiring of the new steel motorcars. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment And sympathy applied to life is like the gasoline in a motorcar, I think. Phyllis A cheerful glow of light streamed from the windows and door, and a brighter glare came from the other side of the road, where a large motorcar was being got ready for an immediate start. When William Came But having become a votary of the motorcar, these stiff hills have been surmounted with ease by the four or five vehicles which the Duke has acquired for sporting purposes. The Portland Peerage Romance Not only are the transportation conditions different, but the motorcar industry in the country is on a different basis. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights It was hidden behind an old rose-red brick wall in a lane, and it was only by standing up in the motorcar that they caught sight of its long line of red-tiled dormer windows. The Belfry The well-patronised ostriches and motorcars flickered round in a pulsing rhythm; black, black, black, before the naphtha flares. Mr. Britling Sees It Through It was only the toot of a passing motorcar. When William Came And because walking can never again be what it was—the motorcars will see to that—it is our duty to pay it greater reverence and honour. Shandygaff Armored motorcars, likewise, of the most improved type, belonged to the Marine Corps when the call for action came. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The airdrome where the squadron landed was but four hours' drive by motorcar from the point from which Bob and Dicky had started the flight that had ended so strangely for them. The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps A school girl was required to write an essay of two hundred and fifty words about a motorcar. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Near the saluting base some thirty or forty motorcars were drawn up in line, and Cicely and her companions exchanged greetings with many of the occupants. When William Came And how the onlookers applaud at the spectacle of a desperately contested race, whether between horses, men, motorcars, bicycles, or boats, or of a match between football, hurling, or cricket teams! The Glories of Ireland Canadian armored motorcars also played an important part in checking the Huns, the cars armed with rapid-fire guns being rushed up to support weakening troops. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights He was in fact striding along in the middle of the road when the horn of a motorcar coming close behind startled him. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 And she probably thinks me a stupid barbarian, who likes only to drive golfballs and motorcars. The Blotting Book Aeroplane engines are far superior in horse-power to those fitted to motorcars, and consequently their structure is more intricate. The Mastery of the Air Went to sleep to the music of motorcars. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Had all kinds of boats and motorcars, and was one of the best of our airmen. Herland Take one quite external case; the streets are noisy with taxicabs and motorcars; but this is not due to human activity but to human repose. Orthodoxy "Describe the events—No. Did the prisoner go up to town, or elsewhere on that day, driving his motorcar, but leaving you in Brighton?" The Blotting Book We shall come in my motorcar—you can put that up for the night, and my driver too? The Middle of Things "Well, thank you again—and good-bye—I have a motorcar waiting outside there, and I have much to do in Barford when I get back." The Talleyrand Maxim Take a harassed seamstress out of the Harrow Road and give her one lightning hour in a motorcar, and she will probably feel it as splendid, but strange, rare, and even terrible. Alarms and Discursions As they stepped into one of the green rides of the park they perceived a motorcar descending the private road which crossed it a hundred yards away. The Coryston Family A Novel Standing in the middle of the road, watching the dust cloud that trailed the fast disappearing motorcar, Mr. Maitland cut a figure sufficiently forlorn and disconsolate to have distilled pity from the least sympathetic heart. The Brass Bowl Mr. Ashton came here one Monday afternoon, in a motorcar, with his luggage, and asked if I could give him rooms and accommodation for a few days. The Middle of Things “Here, sir,” in a shrill treble from the rider in motorcars. Mike There are carts and motorcars, and on the roads about Delhi a curious service of camel omnibuses, but most of the people walk, and they walk ever. Roving East and Roving West The "999" did what it was intended to do: It advertised the fact that I could build a fast motorcar. My Life and Work The streets were a tangled vortex of motorcars and taxies, all filled with men and women in evening dress. The Double Traitor His coat and hat made the young lawyer quite presentable and without another word he followed Mr. Merrick down the stairs and took his seat in the motorcar. Aunt Jane's Nieces out West He wouldn't have needed to go on, for the force and truth of this; but he did go on—he was as crashingly consistent as a motorcar without a brake. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 They think nothing of going ahead blindly and buying the most expensive jewels; I have seen them even buy motorcars. The Secrets of the German War Office She said, 'No, but—' and I said to her, 'I know what you feel; I've wanted things too; and it's just as much misery to want a motorcar as it is to want a shirt.' Drusilla with a Million He was hurried off in a motorcar and placed under restraint in a train at a suburban station, from which he was to be carried to a place some 500 miles away. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography When he had gone the girls accompanied Ajo in a motorcar to Los Angeles, to consult an architect. Aunt Jane's Nieces out West But when they reached the street their motorcar was not to be seen. Patty in Paris Then a motorcar arrived, and two gentlemen stepped out and stared at us, and one suddenly burst out laughing. Afoot in England There were persons who had witnessed the arrival of the motorcar, and the transfer of Sophia to the house. The Old Wives' Tale She passed on and entered a waiting motorcar, accompanied by the two men. The Tempting of Tavernake "There's a certain magic about a background of motorcars and Sherry's, and the opera Monday nights, and the bank account, isn't there?" Harriet and the Piper Adele'—yes, it was Adele—'will be fetched by a friend in a motorcar, and I can let her out and fasten the door again. At the Villa Rose Through the iron railing of the front wall he could see the little motorcar sending its straight beams of light in front of it, up the street. Aaron's Rod They had been much impressed by his cautious care of them, and their natural prejudice against anything so new as a motorcar had been conquered instantly. The Old Wives' Tale The afternoon was darkening toward dusk when she saw the motorcar again still a mile away. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby No. The windscreen of that motorcar in the sun there. Ulysses The station-master informed Lord Dreever that her ladyship had come to meet the train in the motorcar, and was now waiting in the road outside. The Intrusion of Jimmy Clever talk alarmed her, and withered her delicate imaginings; it was the social; counterpart of a motorcar, all jerks, and she was a wisp of hay, a flower.� Howards End She had gotten down from a motorcar that stood beside the curb—one of those modern vehicles, fitted with splendid trappings. The Sleuth of St. James's Square Ever since the morning the owners of this wealth had arrived by ones or twos in their costly motorcars, attended by smart chauffeurs and valets. A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Second, being slow on his feet, one of the royal motorcars had almost run him down, and the police had cursed him roundly for being in the way. Long Live the King! As the motorcars passed through Summer Street they raised only a little dust, and their stench was soon dispersed by the wind and replaced by the scent of the wet birches or of the pines. A Room with a View She was nowhere near as popular as she had been; and even her father's motorcar could not regain the friendship of many of her schoolmates whom she wished to be chums with. Janice Day the Young Homemaker I put the scroll into my pocket and went out, for a motorcar had come into the park, and I knew that Marquis had arrived. The Sleuth of St. James's Square Somewhere in the hideous wreck of Dr. Halding's motorcar the dog had found a soul—and the rest had followed as a natural course of growth. Bruce I will sell my motorcar and my horses and my boots. The Slowcoach To pack a man in a trunk and pitch him on the top of a motorcar!... The Crystal Stopper |
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