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The Little Woman peered into the rear vision mirror and pressed the toe of her white pump upon the accelerator. "There's only one man in the world that can pass ME on the road," the Little Woman drawled, "and he doesn't wear a panama!" As we snapped around the turns of Cajon Grade, I looked back once or twice.
An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed. "Stop the car!" Donald commanded. "I think that man wants to discuss a matter with me." "Sorry, sir, but I don't think it's wise to obey you just now," his father's chauffeur answered, and trod on the accelerator.
He was conscious of a feeling which he had only experienced twice in his life once when he had taken his first lesson in driving a motor and had trodden on the accelerator instead of the brake; the second time more recently, when he had made his first down-trip on an express lift.
You'll go into the ravine at that speed." The front wheel of the roadster was at the horse's right flank. Barney stepped upon the accelerator a little harder. There was barely room between the horse and the edge of the road for the four wheels of the roadster, and Barney must be very careful not to touch the horse.
Go!" implored Robin, catching his arm, and so frightened rang her voice that Tom instinctively obeyed and stepped on the accelerator with such force that the car shot forward. "Oh, faster! Faster!" she sobbed. "He's coming." A backward glance had told her that Adam Kraus intended to give chase; still bareheaded, he had jumped into a Ford standing in the road.
But I don't think he quite knew what a big thing it was to be, for all that. I remember we had several talks about the stuff after that. "The New Accelerator" he called it, and his tone about it grew more confident on each occasion.
Well, as soon as she had something to eat, she would hurry home and perhaps if Prince showed himself properly penitent she would not go right straight to bed. She pressed down on the accelerator and the car sped forward. Presently she looked around, sniffing the air suspiciously. The sky looked very threatening. She stopped the car and got out.
In America, the words "Quick" and "Quick Stuff," are more generally used for and instead of the more proper names, "Sensitives," or "Accelerators," etc. As it has by use become common, I frequently use it in this work. Liquid Accelerator, No. 1.
But so far from smashing, it did not even seem to stir; it hung in mid-air motionless. "Roughly speaking," said Gibberne, "an object in these latitudes falls 16 feet in the first second. This glass is falling 16 feet in a second now. Only, you see, it hasn't been falling yet for the hundredth part of a second. That gives you some idea of the pace of my Accelerator."
"Mine are sore too," said Hugh. "Put on gloves." "I haven't any with me." "I have; take mine." Still watching the small red dot ahead of them Bob managed to slip on Hugh's right-hand glove. It was a great help to him in driving. "They've turned a corner," exclaimed Hugh suddenly. "Faster, Bob!" Bob pressed his foot on the accelerator and the car leaped forward as if it were a living thing.
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