"Filling station" Quotes from Famous Books
... melt-water of the hills, a jaybird called raucously as though in an effort to drown the sweeter, softer notes of a robin nesting in the new-green of a quaking aspen. At the hitching post before the one tiny store, an old horse nodded and blinked,—as did the sprawled figure beside the ramshackle motor-filling station, just opened after the snow-bound months of winter. Then five minutes of absolute peace ensued, except for the buzzing of an investigative bottle-fly before the figure shuffled, stretched, and raising his head, looked down the road. ... — The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... motorists who come through Columbus en route for Kansas City have about the following conversations when they stop at the filling station here: ... — More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher |