fire-engines

From my window I observed all the preparations, including the meticulous rearrangement along the street of the various pint-sized glossy-red Renault fire-engines so as to open up the necessary space inside the cour; the stocking of large ice-boxes with mountains of refraichements; the watering of the geraniums in the window-boxes; the house-proud sweeping, primping, buffing, and tidying that distinguishes the corporate pride of this small army of efficient, exceptionally handsome young men.

Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers 2009

The police and the automobile patrols went by, and once half a dozen fire-engines, returning evidently from some conflagration.

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010

The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under.

Sole Music 2010

We got to keep them clear in case of fire-engines, and that.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

I also saw fire-engines dealing with downed electric cables, trees too big to hug felled in a single gust, fallen boughs on nearly every street and on the radio I heard a commuter train had hit a tree.

Jane Wells: Where Does the Danger Really Lurk? 2008

I LOVE this book-- especially the bit about fire-engines... and elephants.....

Pitch Contest Editorial Anonymous 2008

A quarter mile down the block a half-frantic policeman called his precinct; on the same corner a frightened civilian crashed in the glass of a fire-alarm and sent in a wild paean for all the fire-engines of the city; up in an apartment high in one of the tall buildings a hysterical old maid telephoned in turn for the prohibition enforcement agent; the special deputies on Bolshevism, and the maternity ward of Bellevue

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

Even the fire-engines were out of order, though the burning of the palace ought to have admonished them of the necessity of keeping them in constant repair.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

I was never one of those who stop to stare, I was always more of the "let's get out of the way and let the ambulances and fire-engines have space" kind of a person.

thinking with my fingers Torill 2002

In front of the house, there were ambulances, police cars, fire-engines, swarms of people in uniform moving purposefully about.

Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987