"Sprint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of matches, each one of you!" he shouted. "Then sprint with me for that patch of sun-baked grass just ...
— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock
... shilling in your pocket? I left my purse at home! Do lend it to me! What for? I want to tear out and buy some sweets. Oh yes, I've time. I shall simply sprint. Hand it over, that's ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... the sill into the darkness, a twenty-foot sprint, and he was able to throw himself down on the steep slope that five feet farther on ...
— Take the Reason Prisoner • John Joseph McGuire
... networks are opertional in Moscow and St. Petersburg; expanding access to international E-mail service via Sprint networks; the inadequacy of Russian telecommunications is a severe handicap to the economy, especially with respect to international connections; total installed telephones 24,400,000, of which in urban ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... out of condition," he announced in even tones to Merle. "A little sprint like that shouldn't get ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... scored our only touchdown on a great fifteen yard sprint. Then he stopped that big bull ... Drake ... just as it looked like Drake had a clear field. Drake fell on Judd after the tackle and hurt him ... He'd have quit the game then and there if it hadn't been for a ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... In a desperate sprint, they gained the flight of steps, stumbled up them, and came again into the glorious fresh cold air, and the slanting rays ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... They knocked several fouls, and one man actually went out through Juggins in far right, managing to sprint fast enough to grapple with a soaring fly that came his way across the foul line. The rest struck out, being almost like babies in the hands of ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson
... said I—and with that I heard a bench or a chair go crack like a revolver-shot. It might have been a shot starting a sprint; for close on top of it about a dozen fellows leapt out into the gangway, while three or four charged forward through the audience, where the women ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... long hours and watch my bridge, which is set with lights across the gloom; watch the traffic which is for me but so many passing lamps telling their tale by varying height and brightness. I hear under my window the sprint of over-tired horses, the rattle of uncertain wheels as the street-sellers hasten south; the jangle of cab bells as the theatre-goers take their homeward way; the gruff altercation of weary men, the unmelodious song and clamorous laugh of women whose merriment is wearier still. ...
— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless
... weren't in the parade because we were entered for the events. And what do you think? We both won! At least in something. We tried for the running broad jump and lost; but Sallie won the pole-vaulting (seven feet three inches) and I won the fifty-yard sprint (eight seconds). ...
— Daddy-Long-Legs • Jean Webster
... the crash. There was no escape. Could I urge Little Willie on? I knew it was hopeless; even as I did so he bucketed and failed to respond. He would! How I longed for Susan, who could always be relied upon to sprint forward. At last the crash came. I felt myself being hurled from the car into the air, to fall and be swept along for some distance, my face being literally rubbed in the ground. I remember my rage at this, and even in that extreme ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... If they break you they can't sprint fast enough to keep it; but if they take it away ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... coming up behind, while half a dozen heads have suddenly sprouted from as many doorways. Your heart beats with suspense when Gibb comes to the town-hall corner. Hurrah! He's steering for the fire-house. You're overhauling him rapidly, and by a big sprint you beat out Clatt Sanderson, and grab one handle of the fire-bell ropes. Gibb grabs the other, and then you let her have it for all there is ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... past five before Abe boarded a crosstown car; and, although he made a wild sprint from the ferry landing on the Long Island side, he arrived at the trainshed just in time to see the rear platform of the five-forty-five for Arverne disappearing in a cloud ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... what we'll do after school," said Barry, "we'll have some running and passing. It'll do you a lot of good, and I want to practise taking passes at full speed. You can trot along at your ordinary pace, and I'll sprint up from behind." ...
— The Gold Bat • P. G. Wodehouse
... master of a heartache and thoroughly demonstrated that mastery it is not sensible to let it verge toward a heart throb, even if one is positive of the ability to change it back at will into the hopeless ache. It is like unhandcuffing a prisoner and saying: "Sprint a bit, I can ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... the War is over and the KAISER's out of print, I'm going to buy some tortoises and watch the beggars sprint; When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe, I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 2, 1917 • Various
... could sit still no longer. She had to be helped out of the car by me to join the group round Brian and the dog. She took my arm, and I matched my steps to her tiny trot, though I pined to sprint! We met Father Beckett coming back with apologies for his one minute of forgetfulness. The first time in years, I should think, that he had forgotten his wife for ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... War is over and the Kaiser's out of print I'm going to buy some tortoises and watch the beggars sprint; When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe I'm going to keep a jelly-fish ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... precarious and primitive of foot-bridges across the deep stream, to traverse which would cost an unaccustomed wayfarer both time and pains; thus the interval was considerable before the resonance of rapid footfalls gave token that their pursuer had found himself obliged to sprint smartly along the country road to keep any hope of ever again' viewing the wagon which the intervening water-course had withdrawn from his sight. That this hope had grown tenuous was evident in his relinquishment of his former caution, for when they again caught ...
— His Unquiet Ghost - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... and local access to the Internet international: country code - 1-671; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); submarine cables to US and Japan (Guam is a trans-Pacific communications hub for MCI, Sprint, AT&T, IT&E, and GTE, linking the ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... You must think me a Juggins, but it wasn't my fault!" she apologized. "We shall have to sprint, but we'll just ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... motor was there, and Urquhart in the hall held out his hand. "She can sprint," he said; "so much I've learned already. I ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... study, the list would have gone up on the notice-board after prayers. As it was, engrossed in his book, he let the moments go by till the sound on the bell startled him into movement. And then there was only time to gather up his cap, and sprint. The paper on which he had intended to write the list and the pen he had laid out to write it with ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse
... the kind of ideas that will get you run in for reckless thinkin'. You was winnin' all that when you did that sprint for goal your friend Dicky was tellin' about the other day. Now all you got to do is get up on your toes and make one or two ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... various styles to which he had been accustomed, changing speed at intervals and running the entire gamut between a graceful boulevard saunter and a lost-dog sprint. ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers |
