"Tracer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... birds come over disguised as clouds and spit mouthfuls of red-hot tracer-bullets at it, and then the observers hop out. One of them "hopped out" into my horse-lines last week. That is to say his parachute caught in a tree and he hung swinging, like a giant pendulum, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, October 31, 1917 • Various
... face. Still human sense remains. Where shall he turn? His royal palace seek,—or in the woods Secluded hide?—To tarry fear forbids, And shame prevents returning. While he doubts His hounds espy him. Quick-nos'd Tracer first, And Blackfoot give the signal by their yell: Tracer of Crete, and Blackfoot Spartan bred. Swifter than air the noisy pack rush on; Arcadian Quicksight; Glutton; Ranger, stout; Strong Killbuck; Whirlwind, furious; Hunter, fierce; Flyer, swift-footed; and quick-scented Snap: Ringwood, late ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... les belles betes, Creuser profond et tracer droit, Bravant la pluie et les tempetes, Qu'il fasse chaud, qu'il fasse froid? Lorsque je fais halte pour boire, Un brouillard sort de leurs naseaux, Et je vois sur leur corne noire Se poser les petits oiseaux. S'il ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... said Mrs. Mimms, dialing the super's apartment again to check. "Hooking these up to a regular aerial is so much easier." The superintendent's set luckily had an outside antenna and by manipulating certain dials, the Destinyworker traced it out and up to the roof. Pressing a button marked TRACER LIGHT, she left the set in operation and made her way up to the top floor of the apartment house. Taking the fire exit to the roof, Mrs. Mimms found herself among a forest of TV aerials. However there was a small circle of light cast about one of them and ...
— The Amazing Mrs. Mimms • David C. Knight
... at last unmans him, and brings about his catastrophe in his combat with Macduff. This is what I call ideal and imaginative representation, which marks the outlines and boundaries of character, not by arbitrary lines drawn at this angle or that, according to the whim of the tracer, but by those mountain-ranges of human nature which divide man from man and temperament from temperament. And as the imagination of the reader must reinforce that of the poet, reducing the generic again to the specific, and defining it into sharper individuality by a comparison with the experiences ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell |
