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"Racer" Quotes from Famous Books

... a few pieces in 1851 (p. 56, Vol. XX.) and later, but they were of little importance. Cuthbert Bede was as much a writer as a draughtsman, as he showed by his parody of the "High-mettled Racer." Then came another of Punch's stars of the ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... gunshot of Old Claybury church tower, when the sight of a haystack immediately inside a meadow gate suggested a likely hiding place for the racer; and, having run the car under cover, Harley proceeded on foot to the little railway station. He approached a porter who leaned in the doorway. "Could you direct me to the house of his excellency ...

— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer

... just made a little deposit. It's some money I got from the government for the patents on my sky racer, and I'm salting it down here until Dad and I can ...

— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton

... and, among equivocal associates, had been led on by that taste for sporting which is a manly though a perilous characteristic of the true-born Englishman; he who loves horses is liable to come in contact with blacklegs; the racer is a noble animal; but it is his misfortune that the better his breeding the worse his company:—Grant that, in the stables, Adolphus Samuel Poole had picked up some wild oats—he had sown them now. Bygones were bygones. He had made a very prudent marriage. Mrs. Poole was a sensible woman—had ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... wall were a few portraits of celebrated horses, which foreshadowed the fact that M. Wilkie must have, at least, an eighth share in some well-known racer. After this inspection, M. Fortunat smiled complacently. "This young fellow has expensive tastes," he thought. "It will be very easy ...

— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

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