"Honk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flock of winged seeds flying along with him as far as they could go. Then they would drop in other fields and begin making more dandelions for next year. She knew she must not wait too long. She listened, but she did not hear his honk, honk, honk! ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
... "Honk! Honk!" Hoarse and sharp the cry of a motor drifted clearly up from the silence below. They started backward with a cry and gazed upon each other with eyes that faltered and fell, ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois
... away off in the stillness would come a drawn-out 'Honk! honk!' like a wild goose with the asthma, and pretty soon up the road would come sailin' a big red automobile, loaded to the guards with goggles and grandeur, and whiz past the hotel in a hurricane of dust and smell. Then all hands would set ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln
... The honk and quack of wild geese and ducks, southward bound in great flocks, disturbs the silence of every inlet and cove and bight, where the wild fowl pause for a time to rest ...
— Troop One of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace
... and solemn long-nosed monkey of Borneo (Nasalis larvatus) utters in his native tree-top (overhanging water), a cry like the resonant "honk" of a saxophone. He says plainly, "Kee honk," and all that I could make of its meaning was that it is used as the equivalent ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... matter, my dear, but Decker's honk will be heard before I understand what you're getting at, if you don't hurry. What do you want ...
— The Man in Lonely Land • Kate Langley Bosher
... The fire was out, and in the centre of it lay the quill of a goose. Wesakchak picked it up, and saw that a little piece of birch bark was rolled inside. He pulled it out, and as he did so, he heard the honk-honk of a wild goose, and Nihka flew in ...
— Thirty Indian Legends • Margaret Bemister
... toward the end of July, there came a loud honk from down the hill, then another and another. And as George in his pajamas came rushing from his bedroom shouting radiantly, "Gee! It's dad!"—they heard the car thundering outside. Bruce had left New York at dawn and had made the ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... still, warm noons you can hear through the waiting, echoing air the laughing shouts of playing children and the low-dropping honk of the wild geese that in a scarcely quivering line are sailing northward across the reedy lowlands which the gentle spring rains will turn into soft, ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds |
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