| 单词 | pantechnicon |
| 例句 | The hostess trolley - a favourite with 1970s housewives - was a lumbering pantechnicon used to keep food more-or-less warm in Pyrex dishes. Which household items should make a comeback? 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But then the ambulance arrived, a pantechnicon of rescue, lumbering into view like one of those cranky Red Cross vehicles from my 50s childhood. ‘Words are the best weapons with which to come to terms with ageing’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z These and other removals did not necessitate the use of a pantechnicon; a four-wheeler sufficed on each occasion. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z "That's the story, gentlemen, and there's my bag," jerking his thumb in the direction of the pantechnicon. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle In the end it would have needed pantechnicons to move all the presents. The City Curious Two minutes later Huggles swung the horses into the entrance of The Poplars, the London house of Lady Knob-Kerrick, and the pantechnicon rumbled its way up the drive. Adventures of Bindle The only thing is to reform one's life and learn to be a pantechnicon; one may also, with a little ingenuity, use one's clothes to serve a double purpose. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 "I think," said I, nodding at a huge pantechnicon, "that we might pass the furniture." Jonah and Co. The pantechnicon lumbered on towards the meadow adjoining Kerrick Castle, which had been placed at the disposal of the committee of the Temperance Society by its owner. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle All goods are delivered in our own heavily armoured pantechnicons. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 Just outside Merton they came upon a stranded pantechnicon. Adventures of Bindle Ethel and St. Nivel, having an unlimited command of money, ordered pretty nearly everything they were advised to take, with the result that we required a small pantechnicon van to take our combined luggage. A Queen's Error I know no din at once so obliterative and brain-shaking as that induced by the passage of a French pantechnicon, towed at a high speed over an abominable road. Jonah and Co. By nine o'clock the last pantechnicon that was going back that night had rumbled off to Lowestoft, there to be entrained for London. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed. Men of Affairs As the pantechnicon rumbled heavily along by the side of Wimbledon Common, Bindle whistled softly to himself the refrain of "The End of a Happy Day." Adventures of Bindle It is like going to sea in a pantechnicon!” More About Peggy I added that the pantechnicon would be consigned to me under another name. Jonah and Co. "Yes, Bindle," continued the foreman, "I've got 'em all—all in Black Maria," and he jerked his thumb in the direction of the pantechnicon. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle On landing in the street he wasted no time and nipped very neatly into the open back of the pantechnicon. Men of Affairs The doors of the pantechnicon were burst open and thrown back upon their hinges, where they shivered as if trembling with fear. Adventures of Bindle One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits. With Our Army in Palestine It rattled like a pantechnicon and shook the whole place, and I hated it out of all proportion. Fanny Goes to War Without hesitation the foreman picked him up and bundled him into the pantechnicon and once more barred the door. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Reading incessantly, now fiction, now history, poetry, essays, philosophy, science, exegetics, and what not, he becomes a kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so. Shandygaff Synchronising with the opening of the doors of the pantechnicon was a short, sharp blast of a police whistle. Adventures of Bindle The final fifty or sixty yards of Brougham Street were level, and the pantechnicon slightly abated its haste. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns That is to say, it was a pantechnicon only by courtesy—Mr. Crump's courtesy. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) At this moment there was a loud and continuous pounding from within the pantechnicon that he had just left. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care. The War in the Air All eyes were fixed upon the human avalanche that was pouring from the inside of the pantechnicon. Adventures of Bindle No Admittance except on Business He was heading straight for those gates, and the pantechnicon evidently had business within. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road. Twilight in Italy Later he returned to the pantechnicon, unfastened the padlock, and left the doors merely barred. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle I should think one pantechnicon would do, just for this parish. Touch and Go The heat inside the pantechnicon had produced the necessary moisture upon the fair faces and with this the lamp-black had formed an unholy alliance. Adventures of Bindle The pantechnicon had encountered nobody whatever en route. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Just as he saw himself being bruised and buffeted by a furious crowd, a shadow fell across the shop as a pantechnicon drew up outside. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Finally they had been stowed away in the far end of the pantechnicon. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle It was not until past one o'clock that the trams restarted, and it was 2.30 before Bindle got back to the yard with his three pantechnicons. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle At the sight of the pantechnicon he grinned and, with a jerk of his thumb, indicated the van as if it were the greatest joke in the world. Adventures of Bindle And a voice replied from the belly of the pantechnicon: "Who is there?" The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns He admitted privately then that the saving of a young woman from violent death in a pantechnicon need not inevitably involve espousing her. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Soon the pantechnicon was awaking echoes in the drowsy old High Street. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The one thing clear certainly appeared to be that Denry, in endeavouring to prevent a runaway pantechnicon from destroying the town, had travelled with it into the canal. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The pantechnicon jumped into the canal like a mastodon, and drank. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns But he obscurely imagined that his caprice for the possession of sea-going craft must somehow be the result of his singular adventure with the pantechnicon in the canal at Bursley. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Then it seemed to be saying to itself: "Pantechnicons will be pantechnicons." The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns A moment later the pantechnicon rumbled off, leaving Mr. Cutts still wondering. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle And the onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns A pantechnicon whose ardour is fairly aroused may be capable of surpassing deeds. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns In the navigation of pantechnicons on the squall-swept basins of canals he might have been a great master, but he was unfitted for the open sea. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns But the extraordinary thing was, not that it should be a pantechnicon van, but that if should be moving of its own accord and power. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns By eight o'clock on the morning of the F�te a pantechnicon was lumbering its ungainly way along the Portsmouth Road. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The miracle was that the pantechnicon maintained its course in the middle of the street. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns He could not jump off; the pantechnicon was now an express, and I doubt whether he would have jumped off, even if jumping off had not been madness. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The pantechnicon went through them as a sword will go through a ghost, and Denry was still alive. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The horses had been stabled, probably in Ruth's own yard, and while the carmen were reposing the pantechnicon had got off, Ruth in it. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns |
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