They had a number of preparations to make, and paid a hurried visit to Ashton and several other places, Flockley hiring a runabout for that purpose.
An electric runabout or a good two-seat carriage will fill our bill.
Tim asked, as Dick stopped the runabout in front of the institution.
Dick offered to take him for a spin in the runabout the next day, but his uncle declined, on the ground that there might be an accident.
But, as he started up his runabout again, bidding the agent good-bye, his mind was busy with thoughts of what line he ought next to invest in so that he might fulfil the conditions of his mother's will.
In Dick's runabout he, his father, the inventor and the representative from the War Department, Colonel Claflin, went out to the big field where the airship awaited them.
I walked home across the links and left the runabout at the club.
But I mean it; I could race that car he is so vain of, with my own little runabout machine.
Lambert sprang from the runabout he had driven up and helped Sylvia down.
A minute later a light runabout spun up and a tall, thin man, with a sour face, leaped out and strode up to the two machines.
You spend your days doing exactly what you please; driving that runabout for Father was my one soul-satisfying diversion.
Then, peering out, he saw the car and recognized it as the little runabout belonging to Dick and saw young Percival himself at the wheel.
On Friday afternoon, having written the last of his copy, Jack took Percival's runabout which he now had permission to do at any time, and set off for Riverton and the office of the News.
After school Dick Percival, who had a little runabout which the doctor allowed him to keep in the barn, came to Jack and said: "I am going down to the station to learn some more of this affair of last night.
In the morning Dick went in the runabout and got the bundle of papers from Brooke.
On the afternoon before the examinations were to begin Jack borrowed Percival's runabout and set out for Riverton with the copy for the school paper and something he had written for the weekly News, furnishing something now every week.
I was run away with by two men who jumped into the runabout I was driving when I stopped but I don't know who they are nor why they did it.
Like a flash she gathered up a pile of costumes marked "Rosalind," covered them with her long fur coat and ran through the hall and down the steps to where her runabout was stationed.
It seemed as though the runabout fairly flew over the ground.
Crowding them hastily into the bottom of the machine, she slipped on her coat, made ready her runabout and drove down the street like the wind, not lessening her speed until she reached the drive at "Heartsease.
With a bound she reached the middle of the road, seized Mabel and dragged her back just as the runabout passed over the place where she had fallen.
With these words she turned and stalked across the field to the road, where her runabout stood.
Eleanor," she exclaimed, turning to the weeping girl, "is your runabout outside?
As they dashed around the corner of the stable and reached the open yard, the runabout began to "chug-chug" regularly, and they saw it being steered out of the Higgins premises.
You can speed up that runabout as fast as you want to.
Somebody was trying the starter of the runabout they had left standing in the shade before the barn.
The latter turned around and laughed at the excited boy and girl as the runabout swerved into the road and took the direction of the railroad at a fast clip.
So the girl and boy chums were on the road in the runabout soon after eight.
There were two men, talking excitedly, standing directly in the middle of the highway, and, when they sighted these two men, the thieves in the runabout slowed down.
They didn't have to use it, for the tank of the runabout is nearly full.
The casting was waiting for them and Neale paid the expressman and then the runabout was headed for the Higgins farm.
Agnes examined the upholstering and the panel-work of the runaboutvery closely.
Naturally his examination of the other farm buildings was hasty; but he neglected to look into no shed large enough to have housed the runabout of which he was so eagerly in search.
Without doubt Saleratus Joe was driving the runabout at top speed; but the small car did not have the powerful engine that had been built into the larger car.
By the light of their own automobile lanterns Neale uncovered the runabout and finally hauled it out on the barn floor.
She had written one letter to Mr. Collinger regarding their suspicions of Joe Dawson and his appearance with a runabout in this part of the State.
Neale ran the runabout up to the barn, but did not drive it inside.
Miss DeWitt and Miss O'Brien is also headed for the same place we is, but they comes in the bluerunabout traveling close behind us.
Mr. Dallas he elects for to ride back in the runabout with Miss Bill-Lee so that throws Miss O'Brien, the one which they calls Pat for short, into the big car with the rest of our crowd.
After lunch two of the party in the runabout drove out of the valley to some place familiar to them.
As a result of its speedy run the day before, the runabout had for some little time been running on a rim.
De runabout jumped sideways an' he lost his pepper-box overboard.
Spangler climbed out of the way with more haste than grace, and the runabout dashed past him.
There was a feeling of relief came over him at sight of the runabout charging through the rocks at the mountain's foot.
But, as he looked, and just as the runabout was on the point of striking level ground, there was a jerk to the left, a crash, and a sudden stop.
He would go back after Josh, he decided; but first he would look over the runabout and make sure it was ready for the road.
The runabout was devouring the distance in remarkable style.
Getting into the Red Flier, Matt backed her as close to the disabled car as he could; then, hitching onto the runabout with the ropes, he pulled it down onto the level plain.
He was bearing down on me like a hurricane, slamming the runabout through for all she was worth.
The stolenrunabout can go like a blue streak, and is lighter and faster than the Red Flier.
With his temper at fever heat, what did he care how he injured the runabout just so he evened his score with Motor Matt?
If you've got time, you can stay and help me; and you can keep all you get for recovering the runabout for yourself.
There was only one place in that vicinity where any one could hide, and that was among the scattered rocks not far from where the runabout was standing.
Elizabeth as a small runabout loomed up in front of them.
Sid and Ida came in for a number of rather angry glances, for the mishap seemed to be due entirely to their thoughtless conduct, and that their runabout had been the most damaged did not appear to lessen their offense.
Humid yellow mist floated past the street lamps, and seemed to have gathered in a moving reef around the little runabout car which was standing outside the house, its motor chattering tremulously.
As Margaret was stepping into her little runabout car, which awaited her at the door, a theory presented itself to account for Mollie's sudden hostility.
Possibly to guard against his impulsive nature, she remained in her runabout during the brief farewell.
He was so intent upon bringing his convoy safely through a hostile country that the sounds of laughter or of people in one runabout calling gayly to people in another were a genuine annoyance to him.
Every fourth or fifth runabout carried a lantern; but the presence in the long, wide-gapped procession of other vehicles or equestrians was denoted only by the sounds of voices.
The moment Matt raced around the bend a swagger little runabout was jumping from one road into the other.
By doing wonders with the spark and the steering wheel, and by ignoring the bubbling in the radiator and the pounding of the engine, he nursed the runabout along at a good rate of speed.
We'll go on for a little way and then I'll have a look at the runabout and see if I can't fix it up so we can run headfirst, like every respectable automobile ought to run.
Matt began with his start for Waunakee, related the attempted robbery, and the manner in which he and Ethel Lorry had backed the runabout along the Waunakee road and into Madison.
While Gus removed the runabout to the garage, Matt followed Mr. Lorry up the steps to the veranda and seated himself in a chair.
A man--probably the Lorry chauffeur--appeared in the open door of the garage and stared at the runabout in open-mouthed amazement.
Gus will know what to send for in order to make the runabout as good as new again.
Gretzinger's speech as he and Bryant advanced toward the girls and the gray runabout was quick, determined, and uncompromising.
Late on a certain afternoon Ruth Gardner and Imogene Martin stood waiting by a gray runabout at the edge of the camp.
The electric runabout swung into the yard of the Swift house, and Tom brought it to a stop opposite the side door.
There have been several times while you've been gone that I'd have welcomed the chug of your runabout under my window, waking me up in the middle of the night.
Flinging across the road a dozen feet behind the Flier, Matt brought the runabout closer on that side.
I'd like to go along the top of those cliffs and see if I can find how and where that whiterunabout went to last night.
The shot had come from the runabout and had punctured one of the touring-car's front tires.
The white runabout was wheeling swiftly along the road in the direction of the treacherous cliff trail.
And while Ferral was rehearsing the whole story for Carl's benefit, the white runabout and the Red Flier came to a halt in the road in front of La Vita Place.
The runabout slewed dangerously, and something like a squeal came from somewhere.
Tippoo had halted the runabout and had watched with wide eyes while Matt made his hair-raising jump and stopped the big car.
In advance of the runabout Matt saw a place where the road curved around the face of the cliff.
Ferral was able to twist his head around and keep track of the gallant race the runabout was making.
That white runabout put a shot into one of the tires of that big touring-car, and no revolver ever went off without a human hand back of it.
This conversation, which cleared up some more dark points, carried the runabout out of the swale and onto the flat stretch which led off in the direction of La Vita Place.
The something was the vision of a young woman in a brown linen suit seated in a runabout and driving a horse almost as handsome as Pepper.
Victoria, leaping out of the runabout and hitching her horse, "aren't you afraid some of those sharp iron things will fall on him?
You'd bore me, Humphrey," said she, as she climbed into her runabout with the father and grandfather of the absentee.
The seat of a runabout can be made to hold four, on a pinch, and there is still standing-room for several other adaptable persons.
But, as Tom had said, the lights from his electric runabout would give a brilliant illumination, and these he now directed toward the clump of trees whence the cry for help had seemed to come.
It had been Tom's workroom, so to speak, when he was developing his electric runabout and rifle, but of late he had not spent much time in it.
He intended to stop but a minute, to assure his father that everything was all right, and then get out his speedy runabout to go to see Mary, to tell her the news.
Tom asked his father, as he stopped at the house to get Mr. Damon, having gone out to see about getting the electric runabout in readiness.
He also made an electric runaboutthat was the speediest car on the road.
The lights on the runabout will give us a better chance to look around than we had by the little pocket lamp.
The electric runabout was a machine Tom had evolved in his early inventive days, and though he had other automobiles, none was quite so fast or so simple to run as this, which well merited the name of the most rapid machine on the road.
There was nothing to do but to get back in the runabout and make all speed for the nearest telephone, and Tom Swift lost little time in doing this.
Betty had just risen to go when a runabout stopped at the curb and a gray-haired man got out and came up the path.
She betrayed no surprise at the sight of the runabout and was evidently in the secret.
Betty praised the runabout to his heart's content, and they actually did drive through Glenside, though it was a longer way around, and had the satisfaction of meeting the Guerins.
As the runabout started away with a defiant chug, Jerry and Marjorie stared at each other in silence.
Having delivered herself of this Parthian shot, Rowena wheeled and stepped into the runabout with, "Go ahead, Mignon.
Marjorie's eyes were already riveted on the runabout which they were now approaching.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runabout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
