"Honk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quaintest spectacles of human frailty is an outbreak of hysterics in a girls' school. It starts without warning, generally on a hot afternoon, among the elder pupils. A girl giggles till the giggle gets beyond control. Then she throws up her head and cries, "Honk, honk, honk," like a wild goose, and tears mix with the laughter. If the mistress be wise, she will rap out something severe at this point to check matters. If she be tender-hearted, and send for a drink of water, ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
... corner field had all been loaded, and the teamster was stooping for the reins, when the raucous honk of an auto caused him to pause and ...
— The Unknown Wrestler • H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
... imitate the call of the geese, and throwing his voice so that it seemed from the decoys, it appeared as if they in the goose grass were saying, "Honk: Honk: Honk:" which the Indians say is the goose language ...
— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young
... the mountainous wastes and blighted marshlands which only unknown wild-birds ever touch with their flying wings, and of which madmen dream—these are the things, the ugly, terrible things, that this great optimist turns into poetry. "Yo honk!" cries the wild goose, as it crosses the midnight sky. Others may miss that mad-tossed shadow, that heartbreaking defiance—but from amid the drift of leaves by the roadside, this bearded Fakir of Outcasts has caught its meaning; has heard, ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... elusive, came the sound. It was within a half mile now, and there was no mistaking the destination, the intent of its makers. "Honk! honk! honk! honk!" from many throats, in many keys, louder and louder, confused as children's voices at play; then in turn diminishing, retreating. Very mystifying to one who did not understand would have been that augmenting, lessening sound; but to that waiting ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
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