"Car window" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very sound the electric rush of the first crash of the approaching storm. The man inside who had led soldiers to death on battle fields felt it instantly and the smile died on his thin lips. The roar outside his car window was not the cry of a mob echoing the sentiments of a leader. It was the shrill imperial cry of a rising people creating ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... Violet, who had been pressing her nose against the car window, looking out at the telegraph poles that seemed to whiz past ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope
... between us in a yellow pine hotel on the edge of the pre-digested hoe-cake belt of Southern Indiana. How we got off the train there the night before I can't tell you; for she went through the village so fast that what looked like a saloon to us through the car window turned out to be a composite view of a drug store and a water tank two blocks apart. Why we got off at the first station we could, belongs to a little oroide gold watch and Alaska diamond deal we failed to pull off the day before, over the ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... gazed out the car window, and, shivering, closed her eyes now and then over the vision of a cold dead face she feared to see ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon
... comes sooner or later, according to the season," said Colville. "I remember coming on once in the middle of the month, and the river was so full of ice between Niagara Falls and Buffalo that I had to shut the car window that I'd kept open all the way through Southern Canada. But we have very little of that local weather at home; our weather is as democratic and continental as our political constitution. Here it's March or May any time from September till June, according ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
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