What is "motoring"

Usage examples of "motoring".

You may know one or two little things, my dear boy, but among them motoring is not, otherwise when you were putting that mad advertisement into your pink rag, you would have stopped to reflect that a twelve-horse power car is not expected to carry five grown persons up airy mountains and down rushy glens.

Barrymore hired a youth to guard the automobile and the dog while we went in, strange figures for such a place, in our motoring get-up.

You know you ought to pause and do justice to a place, says Maida, but the motoring microbe wriggles and writhes against the decision of your reason, and you have to use violent measures before you can dull it into a state of coma for a while.

Barrymore tries to explain this phenomenon by arguing that, of all modern means of getting about the world, motoring is in itself the most enjoyable.

They have ahead of them a long winter of motoring about the country in all sorts of weather, wrangling with millers and stevedores, checking cargoes and costs, keeping the peace between the Belgians and the German authorities, observing the rules of the game toward everybody concerned, and above all, keeping neutral.

I think I shall get on with her pretty well after all, especially motoring, when I can take her with plenty of ozone.

She pities me for my fire at Graylees, but envies me my motoring trip.

She said that half the fun of motoring was to sit by the man at the wheel and share his impressions, like being in the forefront of battle, or going to the first performance of a play, or being in at the death with a hunt.

I am looking quite lovely in my motoring things, and enjoying myself very much, on the whole.

It does seem odd and frumpish not to be in Scotland, but motoring covers a multitude of social sins.

Emily so happy since we have been motoring as she is at Wells, and it seems almost criminal to tear her away, though I fear I shall have to do so to-morrow.

The high mountains still wore their invisibility masks, but the lower mountains, not too proud to show themselves to motoring mortals, grouped as graciously together as if they were lovely ladies and gay knights, turned to stone just when they had assembled to tread a minuet.

And Troude, Marimee, Monique Delebarre, were already motoring away from the cafe into the thin traffic.

Aline had wanted to plan out something to do with motoring, about which every one was keen just then.

The joy of motoring, the wonder of travel, both new to Basil, had intoxicated him.