"Sprint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ten minutes past five before Abe boarded a crosstown car; and, although he made a wild sprint from the ferry landing on the Long Island side, he arrived at the trainshed just in time to see the rear platform of the five-forty-five for Arverne disappearing in a cloud of ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... I should not think of leaving you behind by yourself, sir," returned Ron eagerly. "We can't have far to go, and we can soon catch up the others, if we make a sprint for it. Go on, Margot. We'll be after you in ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... built that coop for Danny, or else the big Hun was too tight a fit to get full play for his strength. Anyway, all he did was make the little house rock until you'd thought Long Island was enjoyin' a young earthquake. Meanwhile I stands by, ready to do a sprint if he should break loose, and offers more ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
... sprint-start, up in Camp Bannister, before college opened, when the squad was in training camp, Butch Brewster says that Coach Corridan one day, before Hicks, expressed a fervid ambition to find a ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice
... ago I crep' into this burg lookin' for a match, but the professions was overcrowded, there bein' fourteen lawyers, a half-dozen doctors, a chiropodist, and forty-three bartenders here ahead of me, not to speak of a tooth-tinker. That there dentist thought he could sprint. He come from some Eastern college and his pa had grub-staked him to a kit of tools and sent him out here to work his way into the confidences and cavities of ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
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