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Updated: May 26, 2025
You will see then why Jack was burdened with a sense of deep responsibility for the car, and why he drove almost as circumspectly as if he were sober, and why he would not join in the hilarity of the party. "Hist! Here comes a flivver!" warned the young man on the front seat, waving his revolver backward to impress silence on the others. "Let's all shoot!
"Of course if you don't want to know where I've been or anything " Mrs. Coblenz jerked herself to the moment. "Did mamma's girl have a good time? Look at your dress all dusty! You oughtn't to wear you best in that little flivver." Suddenly Miss Coblenz raised her eyes, her red mouth bunched, her eyes all iris. "Of course if you don't want to know anything." At that large, brilliant gaze, Mrs.
She reaches out for the first peanut-machine in the row, curls her trunk around it and slams it against a brick wall so hard that it immediately begins to look something like a flivver car which has been in a severe collision and something like a tin accordion that's had hard treatment from a careless owner. With this for a beginning, Emily starts in to get real rough with them roasters.
"You've stolen my engine," Pennington almost screamed. "I'll have the law on you for grand larceny." "Tut-tut! You don't know who stole your engine. For all you know, your own engine-crew may have run it down here." "I'll attend to you, sir," Pennington replied, and he turned to enter Mayor Poundstone's little flivver. "Not to-night, at least," Bryce retorted gently.
But even as Adolph Zolzac and an agent for flivver accessories are ye become in my eyes, ye generation of vipers, ye clumsy, bag-footed, wrinkle-sided gunny-sacking ye!" Next day, in the woods, a happy hobo found that the manna-bringing ravens had left him four pairs of good socks.
Pulcifer's "flivver" as it bounced and squeaked and rattled and splashed its way along. But Mr. Pulcifer himself was not sad, at least his appearance certainly was not. Swinging jauntily, if a trifle ponderously, with the roll of the little car, his clutch upon the steering wheel expressed serene confidence and his manner self-satisfaction quite as serene.
Woe unto you, doctors of divity and Episcopalians, hypocrites! for you drop your checks into the collection-plate and you pay no heed to the really important things in the Bible, which are justice and mercy and faith in goodness. You blind guides, who choke over a fly and swallow a flivver! You blind high churchmen, clean first your hearts, so that the clothes you wear may represent you.
Bright little thought of yours." "Pooh!" says Vee. "Besides, there was an express package the driver forgot to deliver. It must be that new floor lamp. Bring it out, will you, Torchy?" And by the time I'd retrieved this bulky package from the express agent and stowed it inside, all the other commuters had boarded their various limousines and flivver taxis and cleared out.
"Of course, if you don't want to know where I've been or anything " Mrs. Coblenz jerked herself to the moment. "Did mama's girl have a good time? Look at your dress, all dusty! You oughtn't to wear your best in that little flivver." Suddenly Miss Coblenz raised her glance, her red mouth bunched, her eyes all iris. "Of course if you don't want to know anything." At that large, brilliant gaze, Mrs.
An Indian "Flivver." An ordinary road it is, and passing over it the ordinary procession heavy-wheeled carts drawn by humped, white bullocks; crowded jutkas whose tough, little ponies disappear in a rattle of wheels and a cloud of dust; weddings, funerals, and festivals with processions gay or mournful as the case may be.
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