"Phone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Latin word numerus takes is number; in Spanish, nombre. The b makes no part of the original word, but has been inserted for the sake of euphony; or, to speak more properly, by a euphonic process. The word euphony is derived from [Greek: eu] (well), and [Greek: phone] (f[^o]nae, a voice). ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... Steve handed the phone back to the coastguardman and ordered, "Get the boys together and return to the ship, Smitty. Repeat their instructions. They don't know where they've been, and they don't know what ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... marvelous. He watched her bend down to pick up the phone without any clear idea of the meaning of the motions. The motions themselves were enough. Every curve and jiggle and bounce was engraved forever ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett
... he whispered back over the phone. "Parsifal is a new idea in horses. Whenever he meets an automobile he goes to sleep and tries to forget it. Isn't that better than running away and dragging you to a hospital? There must be something ...
— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh
... the outside world had of the terrible tragedy that was happening at Oracle came over the phone to Tucson while John Redpath was still ...
— The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds • Francis Flagg
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