Gasoline was his life's blood and his pulse-beats were only the throb of the engine, but, to Billie, he was a faithful and devoted soul and she was not quite prepared to say what she would do in order to save him from destruction.
We'll go by train and then by jinrikshas, much as I regret to leave your gasolinepet behind.
This was the third night of the trip to the mouth of the Pecos, the Rambler having been tied up the two previous nights because the gasoline tank had sprung a leak and there were no filling stations within reach.
It is likely that we can get a supply of gasoline there.
There was a gasoline truck, short and bulky, wheels spinning in the air, its hood crumpled against the remains of an automobile.
Some of the raw gasoline had drenched his sleeve, but he'd been safely out of the way, his face down, when the explosion came.
Grigor, thirty years old, must have died without ever knowing what happened, if not from the impact, then from the wall of flaming gasoline that swept over the seat.
From somewhere they could hear the sound of a gasoline engine.
It must be horrid to spend a perfectly gorgeous day like this in a stuffy shop with a gasoline engine that says nothing but puff-puff.
A dull puff-puff, the foolish chatter of a gasoline engine, was the only sound which broke the fragrant silence, and Rebecca Mary knew that it came from the shop where old Peter Simmons was being shown what had been done.
She looked to see that there were gasoline and water for Richard had told her never to take out a car without seeing that it had plenty of food and drink.
Rebecca Mary thought she would go mad as she stood on the terrace and listened to the chattering gasoline engine or raced up the stairs to see if the bandbox was still on the top shelf of her closet.
The chatter of the gasoline engine came to her faintly, puff-puff.
Impatient to be at work on his drawings for the gasoline engine, he was taken from end to end of the city to inspect homesites.
He heated some coffee on thegasoline stove, burned some bread into a semblance of toast, and scrambled a few eggs.
Up to that time, as far as he knew, no one had ever dreamed of a self-propelling gasoline engine.
She could never invent a gasoline engine, but she was an ideal person to take care of Henry Ford while he did it, to keep the house clean and comfortable, cook good meals, cheer him a bit when he was depressed and never have "nerves.
Seldon held a basic patent covering the use of the gasoline engine as motive power in self-propelled vehicles.
When I get the gasoline engine finished," he said apologetically, and hurried out to work on it.
He listened to his son's explanation of the possibilities in a self-propelling gasoline engine and he shook his head.
He examined the car again, looked to the gasolineand oil, and was ready.
In his idle time, after his twelve hours' work at the sub-station, he was planning the batteries and spark-plugs for his gasoline engine.
It's dangerous smoking where there's a lot of gasoline about.
We can get more gasoline if necessary, for we brought a good supply aboard the boat.
He believed they had plenty of gasoline to see them through, for an additional supply had been carried when starting from the neighborhood of the boat.
Once the fire got inside, there was enough of the dangerous gasoline about to insure the speedy burning of the whole flimsy fabric, all but the motor itself.
But we'll start it some distance away from our gasoline tank, remember.
It's thegasoline that's burning now," he said in a quiet, steady voice.
Billie, who was accustomed to the appetite of a gasoline motor engine.
Two days had passed since the explosion of the gasoline on the Firefly and the old eagle, his grandmother, who had suffered a slight stroke, had not asked for him again.
Why, the gasoline tank is empty," exclaimed the other.
I don't suppose you can find any more gasoline in this wilderness, even if you could mend the boat.
Suddenly they became aware that there was a strong odor of gasoline in the air and that the waters about them were covered with a bluish gray film.
So we filled up our gasoline tank, got something to eat, and started back.
Then the gasoline caught fire and the whole thing burned up, pole and all.
The greatest number of such workers are found in hotels, motels and other tourist lodgings, in restaurants and cafes, in gasoline service stations and in recreational and entertainment activities.
Eighty-three dollars and 45 cents less thirty-five dollars for a tire and a bill for gasoline in the village of eight dollars left me, for the balance of the year, but $40.
It was while sitting thus, and deciding to return the Frat pin as costing to much in gasoline and patients, that I percieved Tom coming down the road.
There are three systems of using gasoline gas for farmhouse lighting purposes, the hollow wire, tube system, and single lamp system.
The tube system of gasoline gas lighting is similar in appearance, but the tubes are larger and look more like regular gas pipes.
Each lamp has a small supply of gasoline in the base of the lamp and has a gas generator attached to the burner, which converts the gasoline into gas, mixes it with the proper amount of air and feeds it into the burner as required.
We are all familiar with the little brass gasoline torch heater that tinners and plumbers use to heat their soldering irons.
By investigating the different systems of gasoline gas lighting in use in village stores and country homes any farmer can select the system that fits into his home conditions to the best advantage.
In one farmhouse the owner wanted gasoline gas street lamps on top of his big concrete gateposts, and this was one reason why he decided to adopt gasoline gas lighting and to use the separate lamp system.
A good kerosene engine should show as clean an exhaust as when operating on gasoline and should develop approximately as much horsepower.
A three-horsepower engine will do the same amount of work with the same amount of gasoline that a two-horsepower engine will do.
Because wind power proved rather uncertain farmers adopted the gasoline engine, usually a two horsepower engine.
Any good farm pump may be hitched to a gasoline engine to determine if the water supply is lasting or not.
Each lamp on the circuit takes a few drops of gasoline as needed, converts it into gas, mixes the gas with the proper amount of air and produces a fine brilliant light.
I want to fill this gasoline tank and get back to Skeleton Island.
Not until then did Dan have opportunity to tell Mr. Hatfield of seeing the gasoline tanks beneath the raft.
He may be selling Mr. Manheim's gasoline and picking up a little extra money for himself, Dan.
Then, pulling a chair up beside the gasoline lamp, he reverted to his favorite occupation--that of trying to solve the coded message left by Jacques.
The two boys distinctly could hear the putt-putt-putt of a gasoline engine.
Did yer see that feller go by on one o' them gasoline bikes?
Late in the afternoon, when I was beginning to grow tired of my indolence, I heard the thud, thud of a gasoline launch as it came up the Bay.
He turned and went round to the kitchen, where his mother was scolding little Eric for letting the gasoline get low.
She left a cloud of dust and a trail of gasoline behind her.
And now a new worry--a new apprehension--began to attack him; thegasoline was giving out.
Rick supervised the refueling of his plane at the pier gasoline depot, a task he would not delegate to anyone else.
Rick and Zircon prepared dinner while Tony and Scotty refilled the gasoline lanterns that provided light, and generally straightened up the cottage.
And then he dropped ker-plunk right on top of a baker's wagon and smashed twenty-six pies-- all because his gasoline gave out.
The Dartaway had a powerful motor, and once on the right trail the eldest Rover advanced hisgasoline and spark, and they went rushing through the air at express-train speed.
Looks to be all right," remarked Dick, after an inspection of the flying machine, and while Sam and Tom were filling the gasoline tank and the oil distributor.
For two long hours, with the heat at times growing all but unbearable, with the peril of a gasoline explosion ever threatening, the boat's pump chugged on.
Her eyes fell upon a dozen gasoline barrels piled neatly by the dock house.
They needed some gasoline so they had to stop at a garage.
Meet the objections to the gasoline car and put forward its advantages.
Electric machines usually make the house-to-house package deliveries, and gasoline trucks, besides hauling furniture, transfer large loads from the store or warehouse to the distributing stations.
You are a salesman for an automobile house and are trying to sell a gasoline car to a man who is partial to an electric car.
Give it plenty of oats and hay, Mr. Ryan, and a drink of gasoline now and then and it'll be as quiet as a lamb.
I think you ought to have it for gasoline and tires," laughed Gordon.
