"Cyclist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me, so far, more than anything was—what d'you think? A little dog, no bigger than a kitten, that was run over the other day in the street by a motor-cyclist—and a civilian at that. There were two or three women round it, crying and gesticulating. It looked as if they'd just lifted it out of a bath of blood. That made me sick. You see, the little dog wasn't in the picture. I hadn't ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair
... motor-cyclist who had spoken the German language so well when he had accompanied the pretty young girl the day before to watch the testing—was dead, seemed to cause the cable-engineer considerable reflection. He said nothing, but a close observer would have noticed that the report of the ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux
... Explain how a motor cyclist can ride on an almost perpendicular wall in a circular race track. Explain how the earth keeps away from the sun, which is always powerfully pulling the ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... Escorted by the motor-cyclist police, splendid fellows who chew gum and do their duty with an astonishing certainty and nimbleness, the Prince came to the City Hall Square, where the modern Brontosaurs of commerce lift mightily above ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton
... walk in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday afternoon. In a lonely alley I was stopped by three cyclist policemen. They asked for my papers. Fortunately, I had with me my passport and the 'permission to remain' issued to me as a foreigner. If I had happened to have left these in another coat, I should have ...
— Paris War Days - Diary of an American • Charles Inman Barnard |
