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  • Recommended If You Like: The Sox-Yankees rivalry, I95, making the honk-honk arm gesture at semi drivers, being able to do email or surf the web while you travel

    Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner - Anil Dash 2007

  • The honk-honk chaos on the streets was hinted at by the chaos that greeted us at the airport, where people, 3-deep, waited at one conveyor belt delivering luggage from ten flights!

    Carine Fabius: Ruined in Rome... 2008

  • He was fairly humming along when, suddenly, from around a curve in the highway he heard the "honk-honk" of an automobile horn.

    Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • It is going to be a real infant industry all by its lonesome; and already it is a pretty husky infant, with a loud honk-honk instead of a teething cry.

    The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

  • Out on the driveway a triumphant "honk-honk!" drew her attention.

    The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose

  • "Nonsense," exclaimed the exasperated Billie, as the "Comet" dashed away with a contemptuous honk-honk, leaving the defeated mountaineer standing in the middle of the road.

    The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

  • February afternoon to see the plover rise from the tussocks of brown grass at your feet, and go flying and wailing above you, in that broken-winged, broken-hearted way of theirs, or to watch the duck flying home across the sunset, with their strange honk-honk!

    Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

  • He pulled it out, and as he did so, he heard the honk-honk of a wild goose, and Nihka flew in at the door.

    Thirty Indian Legends Margaret Bemister

  • American burg, or honk-honk them cross country through farm lands we now better appreciate than before we saw Europe, by woods, lake and stream to camp in the warm summer, or spend winter nights in a land with us as hosts, a land where life is really worth living.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • Above, the sky was very blue, and the ruminating silence was broken only by the honk-honk of a distant motor.

    The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915

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