"Magneto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... preliminary to my magneto-magic treatment, I am beginning by subjecting her to a fasting-cure. This means that every day all she is to have is a quarter of a wafer and ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... steady light," he directed. "I think he's probably disconnected the wires of the magneto — that's what I'd do if I wanted to put a motor out of business in a hurry. And if that's all, there's no great ...
— The Boy Scout Aviators • George Durston
... approval, German manufacturing companies were organized at Bridgeport and elsewhere to buy up the machinery and supplies essential to the production of powder, shrapnel, and surplus benzol; arrangements were made with the Bosch Magneto Company to enter into contracts with the Entente for fuses and at the last moment to refuse to complete the contract. Von Bernstorff was careful to avoid active participation in plots for the destruction of property; but ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour
... would have done in the daytime. The end of the avenue, I knew, was the target of their anti-aircraft gunnery. I flew out, and shrapnel tore all around me. My machine was struck several times, and, as bad luck would have it, the patent point of my magneto fell out just when I got to the spot where shrapnel ...
— Some Naval Yarns • Mordaunt Hall |
