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By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
Still nursing anger I listlessly thumbed a car that was slowly approaching, its pre-war chrome nearly blinding me.
A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.
Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.
The car was approaching fast.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.
Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
The freight car was cold, early in the morning.
He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.
`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.
He advanced on them, and abruptly there was a shocked electricity in the car.
The car was waiting for him.
Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.
Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.
It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.
Eugene offered Harold his car, to use at any time he cared to, and when this offer was not accepted, the armchair creaked.
But he did not notice, and was already backing the car down to the road, saying `` Toot-toot ''!!
When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.
When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.
He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.

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I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
But the car moved off and Alfred just looked straight ahead.
I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.
An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.
I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.
He turned to see the briefly-illumed faces of two men in the parked car just as Rourke said, `` It's the next house, Mike.
He tugged the brim of his hat low as he approached, stepped out into the street just behind the car and strode around to the right-hand side.
Cooper was beside his car, on the curb at the right, just standing there morosely ; ;
The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his 1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that he could take his other car to work.
Trooper J. A. Grzesiak spotted the wanted car, with three boys, at a Route 2 service station, just outside Annapolis.
At Jenks Street, Simms said, the car skidded completely around, just missed two parked cars, and sped east in Jenks.
The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.
The company's car production at the Yokohama plant shifted towards military needs just a few years after the first passenger cars rolled off the assembly line, on April 11, 1935.
The Flivver was not a flying car at all, but it did get press attention at the time, exciting the public that they would have a mass produced affordable airplane product that would be made, marketed, sold, and maintained just like an automobile.
In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).
The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion kilometers travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.
Many world-renowned ski resorts such as Verbier and Crans-Montana are just over an hour away by car.
This came just over half a decade since the one millionth car, an EJ Premier sedan rolled off the Dandenong line on 25 October 1962.
In December 1937, during the battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks of Reuters.
By 1989, with a definitive model name now chosen, the MX-5 ( as in " Mazda Experiment ", project number 5 ) was ready to be introduced to the world as a true lightweight sports car, weighing just.
On land or over water the manned kite's moving anchor may be a car, truck, or boat ; parasailing just by kiting in heavy winds is highly discouraged.
There are cycle racks just inside the Victoria Gate, Main Gate and Brentford Gate entrances, and a 300-space car park outside Brentford Gate.
Split screens are frequently used in motor racing, especially during safety car pit stops in the IndyCar Series and NASCAR, where four way splits are used, most often with three leading cars or trucks ' pit stops shown on the left and a shot of the pit exit ( where restart order is determined after pit stops ) on the right, with some featuring just four different cars or trucks making pit stops.

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