I don't know who they were, but the thing that scared me most of all was the tooting of an automobile horn.
Suddenly a sound very like laughter was heard in the old building, but it quickly ceased and in place of it the faint tooting of an automobile horn was heard.
Why you heard the tooting of that horn in the old Meeker House the same as I did," said Fred.
It seemed to him most unfitting that the harsh voices of his companions, the clatter of hoofs, and the doleful tooting of the cornet, should jar upon it.
From beyond the trees that shut the lawn off from the village there rose the tooting of a cornet, which was followed by a cheer and a rattle of wheels.
Tooting Bec has a fair amount of gorse and bramble bushes scattered about, and a good many old trees, mostly oak.
Tooting Graveney has a fresher, wilder aspect, and is a pleasanter place than its sister common.
Tooting Graveney itself is in the condition of the old Clapham Common as Macaulay knew it in his boyhood.
All the shipping was tooting as she swept by, and the men cheering and waving their hats at the land they might never come back to.
There is more animation in the streets now: shops are opening, cabs tooting down the Avenue de l'Opera the greater part of the night; but most of the house-fronts are still shuttered and still.
Here he stood tooting and snorting and splashing about to his heart's content.
Then we heard the awe-inspiring roar of a hungry lion close by, and presently another hippo gave forth his tooting challenge a little way down the river.
With an effort of memory she identified the other man as the Mr. Tooting who had made himself so useful at Mr. Crewe's garden party.
When they reached the office Austen shut the door, and stood with his back against it, regarding Mr. Tooting thoughtfully.
It's up to a man with a sense of duty and money to make it," Mr. Tooting agreed, taking a long pull at the Havana.
Mr. Tooting and Mr. Pardriff both being men of the world, some exceeding plain talk ensued between them, and when two such minds unite, a way out is sure to be found.
Mr. Hamilton Tooting spread out his feet, and appeared to be studying them carefully.
Burrowing continually amongst the bowels of the vessel, Mr. Tooting knew the weak timbers better than the Honourable Hilary Vanes who thought the ship as sound as the day Augustus Flint had launched her.
Austen turned, and found Mr. Hamilton Tooting at his elbow.
The Honourable Jacob had felt little shocks in his fief: Mr. Tooting had visited it, sitting with his feet on the tables of hotel waiting-rooms, holding private intercourse with gentlemen who had been disappointed in office.
I guess it's a pleasure trip," Mr. Tootinghinted darkly.
But the Honourable Brush was not troubled, and had presented Mr. Tooting with a cigar.
But we'll have to fight fire with fire," Mr. Tooting declared.
Mr. Tooting lowered his voice to a tone that was caressingly confidential.
There now, that's a bargain, and you can practicetooting the lark's call until the time comes.
Yes," he agreed, "I was going without any tooting of horns.
Then came a series of yells, followed by thetooting of horns and the sounding of rattles, making a din that was almost ear-splitting.
And then followed a great yelling andtooting of horns and sounding of rattles.
When I was living on the south side of the river, I spent many nights tramping about Wimbledon, Clapham, Wandsworth, Tooting and Streatham Commons.
The Renown meanwhile had been carried by the currents out of her original position, but the firing of guns and the tooting of syrens eventually discovered her.
In the Tooting cemetery enquiry, November 1874, it was proved that although the subsoil required draining, the merest surface drainage had been resorted to.
The cemetery at Tooting at the present moment discharges into an open ditch, and this flows into the River Wandle, from which many of the inhabitants in its vicinity are accustomed to draw supplies.
For this orphan charge of the Christian saint whose shrine was at Tooting has patted him on the shoulder, and it is the first time in his life that any decent hand has been so laid upon him.
The occasion of this seizure is that Guster has a tender heart and a susceptible something that possibly might have been imagination, but for Tooting and her patron saint.
Soon the happy young folks were singing one familiar song after another and shouting and tooting the tin horns in great glee.
Once more all bundled into the turnout, and then, with a crack of the whip and a loud tooting of the horns, they started on the return.
With a flourish, the driver drew up to the curb with the boystooting loudly on their tin horns, but this salute came to a sudden end when the lads caught sight of their former schoolmates.
But my friend is a very handsome man, and has a handicap of plus two at Tooting Bec.
My friend the Tooting Bec plusser affects a very showy sort of shoe with a wide welt and a sort of fringe of narrow strips of porpoise hide, which fall over the instep in a miniature cataract.
He kept on pushing with the pole until Bert, with a laugh, made the tooting sound as Flossie had done.
They certainly believe in tooting their own horn," said Larry, with a laugh over one of the pictures.
He was forever tooting his horn, and yet he couldn't do much of anything.
Rival bands with tooting horns and rolling drums made a dramatic appearance, paraded, and finally took position.
There's the train tooting now and I haven't said goodbye to the rest!
Indeed, they had begun the familiar strains when an aide appeared, “General says you ‘tooting fellows’ are temporarily to lay that air in lavender.
Geraldine asked, but before anyone could reply there sounded in the driveway the ringing of a cowbell, the tooting of horns and the gay laughter of young people.
The driver was tooting on a horn and looking hopefully toward the house.
Then, as the two big white horses raced along the snowy road with bells jingling, she soon caught the spirit of merriment and found herself tooting upon a horn as gayly as the rest of them.
They arrived in a procession of sleighs with ringing of bells and tooting of horns.
I was a bit of Clapham or Tooting transported a hundred or two miles into the country--very suburban indeed!
Here, friend; I did intend to kindle a fire with this tooting whistle of thine; but as you value the thing, take it, and blow your best on it!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tooting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
