The camels liked neither the headlights nor the running engines, and these had to be made dark and silent before they would pass.

"We expect to escape soon after dark, so have the headlights going, for we shall make a rush for it and there mustn't be a moment's delay.

The headlights showed him distinctly the face of the man who fired, the same face of fat features black with soot that he had seen by moonlight at Montpellier-le-Vieux.

" They drew away from the limousine so quickly that in thirty seconds its headlights were all that marked its stand.

Can you manage without headlights for a while?" "I drove an ambulance for four years, sir.

Below, at the foot of the hill, the headlights of another car, standing at some distance and to the right of the road, furnished lurid illumination to the theatre of disaster.

Lanyard saw the beam of the headlights lift and drill perpendicularly into the zenith before it was blacked out.

The brake- bands went on with a shriek and Jeremy and I pitched forward as the car brought up against the kerb in front of an enormous door, whose brass knocker shone like gold in the rays of our headlights.

Automobile parties visited this spot at different times during the night and played their headlights on the corpse in order better to enjoy the spectacle.

The cars lurched over the uneven road with increasing speed, their headlights playing on each other or on the darkened highway.

The headlights of two of the machines threw a white light over the horrible scene.

Headlights flung gigantic, distorted shadows of trees across the walls of the old wing.

For perhaps three seconds he had been held clearly in the glare of Carroll's headlights.

He grinned into the black heart of the night, streaked with lines of grey where therein entered the halo of the headlights, and then swung the car through an open, iron gate.

They took three big acetylene headlights from motor cars, and connected them up.

That was where the headlights they borrowed from motor cars came in.

Then we saw the gleam of headlights, and an English voice called out.

The headlights of the cars thrust shafts of blinding light into the darkness as they steered round in the steep and narrow road which led to the convent gates between two high thick walls, and then, with a grinding and panting, came inside to halt beside cars already at a standstill.

Headlights and markers.

On one side our windows looked out on darkness of the waste; on the other at the black Canal, all spaced with monstrous headlights of the night-running steamers.

Slip down," he went on, turning to the other man, "and bring the headlights off the car, so that we can see what we're doing.

He cranked the engine, switched on the electric headlights, and went tearing down the fifteen-mile incline to the lake.

It was standing still,a car facing him with its headlights burning, the distance so great that the two lights glowed as one.

Git!" Sourly they shouldered their bed-rolls and went limping down the trail, and when their forms were only blurs beyond the shine of the headlights, the little woman churned Jawn around somehow in the sand and drove back quite as recklessly as she had come.

She had left the engine running, probably for sake of the headlights, and her eyes shone dark and bright in the crisp starlight.