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  • They want motor-cars and the delicacies of the table, the jewels and the joy rides.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • But surely you have intelligence to see the question in larger ways than stolen motor-cars.

    THEFT 2010

  • Several of us scouted among the private garages in search of motor-cars and gasoline.

    Page 6 2010

  • All he could talk about was motor-cars, machinery, gasoline, and garages -- and especially, and with huge delight, of his mean pilferings and sordid swindlings of the persons who had employed him in the days before the corning of the plague.

    Page 4 2010

  • This year five hundred million dollars has been spent for motor-cars.

    THEFT 2010

  • It required men toiling in the mines and foundries, women sewing their eyes out in sweat-shops, shop girls slaving for four and five dollars a week, little children working in the factories and cotton-mills — all these it required to produce those five hundred millions spent this year in motor-cars.

    THEFT 2010

  • They are too busy drinking cocktails, driving motor-cars, and playing golf to learn how to cook.

    The Empire Christmas Pudding 2009

  • We camped on the opposite side of the campus from the prowlers, and, while some stood guard, others of us volunteered to scout into the city in quest of horses, motor-cars, carts, and wagons, or anything that would carry our provisions and enable us to emulate the banded workingmen I had seen fighting their way out to the open country.

    Page 5 2010

  • I always knew those motor-cars were to blame for terrible things.

    THEFT 2010

  • There were numerous stalled motor-cars, showing that the gasoline and the engine supplies of the garages had given out.

    Page 7 2010

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