autobus
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The general belief was that the King was a chance victim of the ambuscade which was intended for the Orchanie-Sofia autobus, occupants of which were known to be carrying large sums of money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although A-to-Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I stood watching autobus after autobus swing round in a fearful semi-circle to begin a new journey, I gazed myself into a mystic comprehension of the significance of what I saw.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
Then turning about, I started a parallel race with an autobus, much to the delight of the occupants.
From My Home in the Field of Honor by Huard, Frances Wilson
Cure, the tiny village of which my brother is still mayor, owes its paved streets and its bridge to our grandfather, its schools to our father, its electricity and its autobuses to my brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
The battalion is to be carried to the front in the same string of groaning autobuses which brought out its weary predecessors.
From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)
The Germans had taken down the bars and sight-seers came by autobusses from as far away as Aix-la-Chapelle and from Liege and many from Brussels.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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