Sentence examples for ancient vehicle from inspiring English sources

The other day I rode around with him in the ancient vehicle delivering the newly dug first potatoes of the season and fresh raspberries and raspberry jam (made by a sort of Junior Ilse Koch type who inhabits our kitchen).

The car owner quietly converts himself and his ancient vehicle into a taxi service (thanks to Cuba's tightly restricted market, cars are worth a fortune one man recently sold his 1968 Volkswagen Beetle for $9,000, and not because of its vintage value).

It was the plan of the Porcellain Club at Harvard University when President Lowell decided to get rid of his old car and replace it with a new one, to buy it and keep the ancient vehicle parked at the club door and use it for their random scurryings.

By Lucius Beebee and Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, November 28 , 1931 P. 11It was the plan of the Porcellain Club at Harvard University when President Lowell decided to get rid of his old car and replace it with a new one, to buy it and keep the ancient vehicle parked at the club door and use it for their random scurryings.

The ancient vehicle carries a high-tech payload, including a magnetometer, ice-penetrating radar, and extremely accurate GPS equipment.

The Germans wanted to kill the G because it is an ancient vehicle, and because they were developing the full-size model.

As tour master for the 2012 motoring tour, which left Kirkland, Wash., on Aug. 7 and arrived in Pebble Beach eight days later, Mr. McEwan knows firsthand the mishaps that can occur when 17 mostly ancient vehicles embark on a journey over arduous terrain.

The newest thing in streamlined cars of the 1937 automobile show were forgotten for a few hours before noon as the ancient vehicles, which have been immortalized in the novels of Flaubert, Balzac and de Maupassant, proceeded to the pavilion, where port and champagne were served in their honor.

I have taken enough cab rides in Havana, in rickety, ancient vehicles with no seat belts, springs, mufflers, or carburetors, to know that Havana smells of gasoline and cigars.

It can seem like a metaphor for inefficiency, but its source is an ancient Chinese vehicle equipped with a system of gears that kept the statue facing south, regardless of the cart's direction.

The happiness of being alone, and tipsy on red wine, in the passenger seat of an ancient recreational vehicle parked in a campground outside Seward, Alaska, staring into a scribble of black trees, unable to go to sleep for fear that at any moment someone will get past the toy lock on the R.V. door and murder you and your two small children, sleeping in the alcove above.