"Trunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little square box, in the hall," answered Larry. "I had it in my trunk, you know, when we took passage on the Vanderbilt at Havre that May morning. I forgot to give it to you in the hurry of landing, and I haven't had a chance since. This is the first time I have seen you for nearly three years. ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 • Various
... of the question, so something very much simpler must be thought out—something that should be all straight lines, or if there were any curves they must be of such a character as to be producible without such special apparatus as, for instance, a steaming trunk. ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... we encountered modern civilization again in the shape of the south-west branch of the Grand Trunk road, which leads off from the main stem at Agra. The Grand Trunk is not a railroad, but a firm and smooth highway, with which the English have united Calcutta to the North-west Provinces and to the west of India. Much of this great roadway is metaled with kunkur, an oolitic limestone ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various
... that was exhibited in London was made to go through a variety of tricks, and among them that of picking up a sixpence with its trunk; but on one occasion the coin rolled near a wall beyond its reach. As the animal was still ordered to get it, it paused for a moment as if for consideration, and then, stretching forth its trunk to its greatest extent, blew with such force ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... the chirky gent, gatherin' up our hand luggage. "Guess you're the ones we're lookin' for. Got yer trunk-checks handy?" ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
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