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"Motoring" Quotes from Famous Books

... just learning to drive," said Robert, who wore a motoring-cap which was particularly becoming. "I do not know much about automobiles yet; soon I shall buy one. It is rowing I like best, and skating in winter, though I have not time to amuse myself except at the end of weeks, for I am manager of my poor father's factory. But my fiancee likes the automobile, ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... into Washington and surprise her. But enemy aliens were forbidden to visit the capital, and he was afraid to go by train. He had wild visions of motoring thither and luring her to a ride with him. He wanted to kidnap her. He might force her to marry him by threatening to kill her and himself. At least he might make her his after the classic manner of his fellow-countrymen in Belgium. ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... come as far as the ferry, anyway. Even if you won't give me a day of motoring. It's wonderful out in the country this ...

— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory

... Colonel Everard's favourite bridle path, which naturally prevented repairs upon it. But before the railroad went through it had been Green River's only link with a wider world. Now a better built but more circuitous road had replaced it, designed for motoring. No motors ever penetrated here, and few carriages. It was left to the ghosts of ancient traffic, if they ventured here. The glancing moonlight under the close-growing trees might have been full ...

— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton

... and get out of these motoring clothes. And I should like to have on a pair of boots that were a trifle ...

— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson

... cannot decide in my own mind which is the more fearsome and perilous thing—to be afoot in Paris at the mercy of all the maniacs who drive French motor cars or to be in one of the motor cars at the mercy of one of the maniacs. Motoring in Paris is the most dangerous sport known—just as dueling is the safest. There are some arguments to be advanced in favor of dueling. It provides copy for the papers and harmless excitement for the participants ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... we have all the time in the world. There's no scandal possible in being out motoring with your husband, even if you ...

— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer

... spurred on by Aline Proctor, who wanted to build a summer home on Long Island, was motoring with Post, of Post & Constant, in the neighborhood of Westbury. Post had pointed out several houses designed by his firm, which he hoped might assist Griswold in making up his mind as to the kind of house he wanted; but none they had seen had ...

— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis

Words linked to "Motoring" : driving, motor