Jules touched the headlight switch and opened the exhaust.

With the body of the car again the dwelling-place of darkness, objects beyond its rain-gemmed glassthe heads of the Chinese maid and chauffeur, the twin piers of the nearing gatewayattained dense relief against the blue-white glare of two broad headlight beams, that of the limousine boring through the gateway to intersect at right angles that of another car approaching on the highroad but as yet hidden by the wall of the park.

Perhaps some movement of the horses or else the bright light of the acetylene headlight falling on his face aroused the man, for he sat up as Frank was about passing.

As they advanced into the glare of the detached headlight, Joey and his companions saw them.

" With this Mr. Bell adjusted the headlight he had removed and climbed into his car.

The right headlight smashed and I was thrown against the wheel, striking it with my shoulder and bending it nearly double.

And occasionally the headlight of a switch engine zigzagged across the tracksI was afraid I'd be caught in the glare "Finally, I saw Warren.

Captain McBane wore a frock coat and a slouch hat; several buttons of his vest were unbuttoned, and his solitaire diamond blazed in his soiled shirt-front like the headlight of a locomotive.

I experienced innumerable tense moments when my horseas frequently happenedtook me for a bit of a circular tour in an adjacent field, so as to avoid some colossal motor lorry with one headlight of about a million candle-power, which would suddenly roar its way down our single narrow road.

Leaning forward my looks are attracted by the luminous ray thrown forward by the headlight of the engine.

" "I'm not supposed to dally with it myself, having been brought up on cistern water, but I find in traveling that I entertain a more kindly feeling for you strange foreign people when I carry a medium-sized headlight.

Three minutes later the electric beam of Tischer's following headlight sought and found the first section on the long tangent leading up to the high plains, and the race was in full swing.

At the same instant Tischer's headlight swung into view, half blinding them with its glare.

"The thing to be done is to stop this train without getting ourselves ripped open by that fellow behind the headlight yonder.

Tischer's headlight had disappeared and his protection was gone.

"Our man has thought better of it," said the governor, marking the increased speed and the disappearance of the menacing headlight.

The station of Agua Caliente swings into the field of 1010's electric headlight.

But the beam of the 1010's headlight shows the small station building massed by men, a score of them poising for a spring to the platforms of the private car when the slackening speed shall permit.

Just behind the great hissing locomotive, with its parabolic headlight and its coal-laden tender, came the baggage, mail, and express cars; then the passenger coaches, in which the social condition of the occupants seemed to be in inverse ratio to their distance from the engine.

So Cooper and Creagan evoke the drama of the railroad man's world: glare of headlight, crash of wreckage and voice of the born leader mingle in unwonted orchestration.

it certainly does seem to come from" The train, puffing and panting from its pull up the grade, now showed its headlight through the trees.

Her headlight showed at last, an immense distance off; the economic electrics were turned up, the ghosts vanished, the dragomans of the various steamers flowed forward in beautiful garments to meet their passengers who had booked passages in the Cook boats, and the Khartoum train decanted a joyous collection of folk, all decorated with horns, hoofs, skins, hides, knives, and assegais, which they had been buying at Omdurman.

Bob was the first to cry, pointing to a brilliant headlight just rounding into view on the distant track.

He nodded, watching the great headlight grow all too slowly bigger and bigger.

As the engine rounded turns, the headlight threw its rays up serried columns of granite half a mile high,columns that rear their height in grotesque form and Gothic arch, polished by the waters of ages.