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"Traffic cop" Quotes from Famous Books

... me to look out for him," he smiled, and let my car out another notch once we'd passed the traffic cop at Kearny. ...

— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... the medical school surely do amuse me," he laughed. "When I tell 'em I'm to be a missionary doctor, which I do first thing to give 'em sort of a shock they don't often get, they stand off and say, 'What, you!' as if I had told 'em I was to be a traffic cop, or a trapeze artist in the circus. Some of 'em seem to think I'm queer in the head, but, boys, they are the ones with rooms to let. When the others talk about hanging out a shingle in Chicago or Saint Louis or Cleveland or some ...

— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

... remember Pongo Twistleton telling me that he was out in a gondola with a girl by moonlight once, and the only time he spoke was to tell her that old story about the chap who was so good at swimming that they made him a traffic cop in Venice. ...

— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... betray it. I watch to see and when they cross, they just cross—that's all. Not with nonchalance exactly, but with ease and assurance. Once I actually saw a man, a native son, I'm sure, roll a cigarette as he crossed at a point where even the traffic cop looked nervous. ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey