"Auto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than half an hour the auto came to a halt before one of a score or more of fine houses lining the most exclusive section ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood
... haploteta kai ten philomuthian. Horontes gar tous phaneros muthographous eudokimountas, oethesan kai autous parexesthai ten graphen hedeian, ean en historias schemati legosin, ha medepote eidon, mete ekousan, e ou para ge eidoton skopountes; di auto de monon touta, hoti akroasin hedeian echei, kai thaumasten. Radios d' an tis Hesiodoi kai Homeroi pisteuseien Heroologousi, kai tois tragikois Poietais, e Ktesiai te kai Herodotoi, kai Hellanikoi, kai allois toioutois. Oude tois peri Alexandrou de sungrapsasin rhadion pisteuein ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... their memories infamous, and prosecute their children and all the connections of these unhappy sufferers; they deprive orphans of the inheritance of their parents, dishonour families in every possible shape, and at length have recourse to the auto da fe, [77:2] on which occasion, while the miserable wretches are lingering in torments, the members of the inquisition not only feast their eyes with this Infernal spectacle, but regale themselves with their friends ...
— An Apology for Atheism - Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination - by One of Its Apostles • Charles Southwell
... beat 'em to it, that's all. Sa-a-ay, girl, I ain't kickin'. You can't live on your nerves and expect t' keep goin'. Sooner or later you'll be suein' those same nerves for non-support. But, kid, ain't it a shame that I got to go out in a auto smashup, in these days when even a airship exit don't make a splash ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... afraid of being run over. In his sleep, the patient communicates the details and sees everything clearly. After a short interval of complete rest, he begins to breathe heavily, his pulse quickens, then he cries out in fright and excitement and dread, "Now it's coming, now the auto's coming, it's turning over, we're under it, there it's riding over us!" Gradually he quiets down again, and after a quarter of an hour, awakes. He says he now feels something lifted from his chest, that he has slept well, and feels better. He recalls everything. The train ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
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