"Horseless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resting, and gazing about him, when the wagon driver came up. The driver was a colored youth in a khaki shirt and an overseas cap, and his wagon was a horseless affair, huge and covered. The colored man, halting his truck to let a cross current of vehicles pass, dazzled ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... Reader, all this unwound from the Reel before the first Trolley Car climbed a Hill or the first Horseless Carriage came ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... another guess," a growling neurologist volunteered. "Why shouldn't psychic freaks have biceps? We keep forgetting that we've dragged our fifty-year-old carcasses into an entirely new age—a wireless, horseless, man-flying, star-chasing age. Why, after shock upon shock of scientific discovery, shouldn't the human brain, like a sensitive plate, be thinned down ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... unsocially together. More companionable, but still in an uncomfortable way, were the large crawling, running insects—crickets, beetles, and others. They were shapely and black and polished, and ran about here and there on the floor, just like intelligent little horseless carriages; then they would pause with their immovable eyes fixed on me, seeing or in some mysterious way divining my presence; their pliant horns waving up and down, like delicate instruments used ...
— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson
... instant a horseless cavalryman, gray with dust and dripping with blood and sweat, staggered out on the road from among the trees. He turned a deathly face to theirs, stopped, ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... where I could do something besides blindly follow another's lead. I caught the frightened animal as it dashed out of the treacherous place (to be horseless is almost a worse fate than to be wounded), and Nimrod, who was little hurt, quickly recovered and managed to scramble to dry ground, and again into ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson |
