"Telephone booth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turned down Fifth Avenue instead of up. The little man, it appeared, had business in the same direction. Jocelyn Thew walked the length of several blocks in leisurely fashion and then entered an hotel, studiously avoiding looking behind him. He made his way into a telephone booth and looked through the glass door. His follower in a few moments was visible, making apparently some aimless enquiry across the counter. Jocelyn Thew turned his back upon him and asked ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... entrance to the Merchants' Exchange, being minded to enter a telephone booth and notify the Bilgewater Club he would not be present that day. As he walked through the gate into the Exchange, however, he was accosted by a heavy, florid-faced man carrying a thick woolen watch coat over his arm. This individual was Captain Aaron Porter, one of the San Francisco bar ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... for a few blocks, he entered an hotel and sought the telephone booth. The wide awake voice that answered him was very unlike the sweet and sleepy drawls of protest his matutinal ringings were wont to call forth when Dorothy had been a gay and frivolous debutante. The enforced quiet of her mother's prolonged illness, and the sojourn ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... in the store to the telephone booth and call up headquarters. Ask them if the automobile is ready, with the ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various |
