There are also flying machines called flivvers that are never fully explained. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)
The two Cameron cars stood in the station yard, and as the other waiting cars, taxicabs and "flivvers" departed, "the sacred odor of gasoline," which Jennie had remarked upon, was soon dissipated. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)
Johnny Gamble was compelled reluctantly to enter "flivvers" against his days 'labors; and on Tuesday at two o'clock Constance called him up. ❋ George Randolph Chester (1896)
The first ones I remember were the flying flivvers, autogyros or cars that sprouted wings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And as I was jogging along in a dream as dozing I was dawdling, arrah, methought broadtone was heard and the creepers and the gliders and flivvers of the earth breath and the dancetongues of the woodfires and the hummers in their ground all vociferated echoating: Shaun! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Other, more restrained, girls..the ones with ironed frocks, polished shoes and grandmothers who did not drag race flivvers on Broadway and moon after Valentino, saved their candy till it rotted in the cupboard...a condition Miss Snark had not dreamed was even possible till she saw it with her own four eyes. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)
But it is not satisfied until the entire world also admits that the end and joyous purpose of living is to ride in flivvers, to make advertising-pictures of dollar watches, and in the twilight to sit talking not of love and courage but of the convenience of safety razors. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered — not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He saw horses replaced by flivvers and "Grey Ghost" sedans and Ford black & whites. ❋ Ellroy, James, 1948- (1996)
Will it become necessary to have traffic lights in the sky when all the people with empty hours to spend take to the air in flivvers? ❋ Unknown (1951)
In the third place, the instrument is a lifeless thing, and when something goes wrong with it it rouses the helpless fury inspired by all inanimate objects which interfere with our comfort -- like intermittent alarm clocks, collar buttons that roll under the furniture, and flivvers that go dead without reason in the middle of country roads. ❋ Nella Henney (N/A)
The flivvers flivved all right, but the hell of it was we got so excited about the race we forgot about the sergeant an 'he fell off an' nobody missed him. ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)
You can't make flivvers without steeland you can't make tragedies without social instability. ❋ Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (1932)
There were the flivvers and lower middle-class cars owned by small merchants, natives ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
Then wed be off, two solid pals, a-chatterin like giddy gals of flivvers, weather, home, and wives, lodge-brothers then for all our lives! ❋ Unknown (1922)
` ` Mornin ', Mr. Babbitt!' 'said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered -- not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Then we'd be off, two solid pals, a-chatterin 'like giddy gals of flivvers, weather, home, and wives, lodge-brothers then for all our lives! ❋ Unknown (1922)
Ford owns the flivver factory, but everybody owns the flivvers. ❋ Davis, James J (1922)
