What is "motors"

Usage examples of "motors".

American Field Service, but it shows the solid construction of the hidden flooring, the supporting pillars, one of the motors and one of the gas pipes.

One other time I know of information was given undetected which resulted in the shelling of a road at a time when a convoy of motors was about to pass.

It contained about a dozen motors, all of them ancient and old-fashioned, and one of them, stripped of its wheels and its engine, and reduced to the state of a carcass, was hanging from the chains of a pulley.

The idea of switching the motors, and above all of pinching the six-cylinder from the old fossil across the road!

After it had been opened, the motors drove into the park and round the house, stopping at the foot of the steps.

In nearly every street there is a Red Cross flag or two, to indicate a temporary hospital in a private house or a hotel or shop, and people are stationed in the street to make motors turn aside or slow down.

The Avenue de Tervueren, a broad boulevard with a parkway down the centre, is the most direct way into town from the scene of the fighting, and there has been a general belief that the Germans might rush a force into town in motors that way.

While we were dining, a lot of motors came by filled with British officers.

The town is completely occupied and troops line the streets, stopping all motors and inspecting papers, then telling you which way you can go.

The Grande Place was filled with motors and motor trucks, this evidently being a supply depot.

I had a lot of errands to do during the morning and kept both motors busy.

The few motors allowed on the street have no lights, and are stopped by all the patrols, who do not call out but rise up silently in front of you and demand the password.

Also poor Prince Ernest de Ligne, whose son, Badouin, was killed in one of the armoured motors several days ago.

The three motors, de Ligne in the first, started down and were attacked by about forty Germans under command of a major.

The Grande Place was filled with staff motors, and there was a constant coming and going of motors and motorcycles bearing messengers to and from the field of operations.