"Bike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plucked out the last prop that held up the British goddess, and she had fallen and crushed the traitor in her fall. I turned and darted for the coat which I knew to contain the package, ripped it up with my sword, and raced away up the garden path to where my motor bike was waiting on the road above. I had every reason for haste; but I fled without looking back at the statue and the body; and I think the thing I fled from was the sight of ...
— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton
... road, and a side-slipping motor-bike provided the means of an introduction between Second Lieutenant Courtenay of the 1st Footsloggers and Sergeant Willard K. Rawbon of the Mechanical Transport branch of the A.S.C. The Mechanical Transport as a rule extend a bland contempt to motor-cycles ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... said: "You go down on the ' L.' I'll bike. It's such a splendid night." Fine piece of business this! To have a bicycle come between man and wife is a pretty hard fate, I think—for the ...
— The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces • John Kendrick Bangs
... a matter of five minutes on a bike, ten minutes in the automobile, and twenty minutes ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... exclaimed Ernest Thompson, the bike scout, who was acting as a patrol on the course. "Whose ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... "I bike now and then in the country," said Ada, "but I have not done much lately. We have only just come down from town, and, of course, I never ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... done. Bert went to the gate and returned almost immediately: the bike was gone. As the good news spread through the house a chorus of ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... the palmy days of the bike, when everybody that could possibly scrape the price together owned one. A bicycle race in them days meant somethin', let me tell you, and people for fifty miles around would organize parties to ...
— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield
... over into Belgium to-day: crossed the frontier on my motor bike; the roads are terrible, all this beastly "pave" cobblestones; awful stuff to ride over on a motor cycle. Shell holes on both sides of the road, and I saw three graves in the corner of a hop garden. All along the road there were dozens ...
— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene
... hadn't outlived her respect for aristocracy. Gee!" chuckling, "if she'd heard what I said to you just now, I reckon she'd have thrown a fit. Anyhow she made me feel I'd like to see the kind of places she talked about. And I shall think myself in luck if you'll let me have a look at yours—just a bike around the park, if you don't object—or I'll leave the ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Sir John, if you ever do rouse him, then you'll have to round up all the towns and villages for twenty miles. It's a pity you can't have Ralph; he would have rounded them for you in no time on his motor-bike." ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
... ripping time last Saturday. Bartie went up to town, and Major Cameron took Dorothy and Ronny and Vera and me and Mick to Birdlip in his dog-cart, only Mick and me had to bike because there wasn't room enough. However we grabbed the chains behind and the dog-cart pulled us up the hills like anything, and we could talk to Dorothy and Ronny without having to yell at each other. He did us ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair
... ought to be. You were indirectly responsible for the accident that gave Kate the swollen knee. It was your wretched old push-bike that she ...
— If Winter Don't - A B C D E F Notsomuchinson • Barry Pain
... I do know something of sewing," replied Ethel. "I can do beautiful work and I can ride horseback, and I'm at home on a 'bike'." ...
— How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson
... Ned volunteered eagerly. "And Joe Underbill went by on his bike. And he yelled at us, 'You'd better go home, your house is on fire!' and Anne began to cry, didn't you, Anne? So Agnes said a prayer, right out loud, didn't she, Junior? And then Dad and Mr. Rose went by us in the car on a run— we were way up by Ingrams'—and ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris
... not. A cab's the thing, with the invalided bike on top. But may I be with you? I don't see how it is possible to ...
— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson |
