"I heard the horn honking when the water started rising, " he said.
The honking car horns dissolve into the excited chatter of teen-agers in the lobby.
So Indian courts have closed the foundries, decreed a green belt of 500 metres around the monument, and banned the honking of car horns in the vicinity.
Cars whizzed by at 45 miles an hour, honking at the two-foot-wide biped awkwardly blocking their lane.
And it was honking on the mountain, really kicking up an afternoon gust.
He knows it from the honking cars and hand-waving he's been getting lately.
Honking horns from the baying taxi drivers outside will bring you back to modern day Amman before you can say la shokran elak (no, thank you).
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Celebratory gunfire rang across many areas of Tripoli as people drove around the city honking their horns and chanting in celebration.
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It used to be so much easier for IBM : just keep building the biggest honking computers available to business, just keep ramming them into more and more offices.
Traffic was stopped, and a block full of honking cars had to back up down the street.
In an online study by stopstreetharassment.com, 95% of respondents said they had been the victims of leering, honking or whistling and a large proportion have been groped or grabbed in public.
And even back on the south coast, hidden behind the heat and horn-honking of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, you will also find a trove of architectural treasures, many legacies of the country's melting-pot religious heritage.
Jubilant Kenyatta supporters flooded the streets of downtown Nairobi, honking horns, blowing plastic noisemakers and chanting.
Horn-honking had become a symbolic rite, evoking the function once filled, in the world of physical reality, by use of the brake pedal.
Here they were, away from the damp, Sceptered Isle, tootling and honking through paradise in their gleaming, buffed chrome toys.
His group has also chased down trucks and buses that ignore a government ban on musical pressurized horns, which can be almost twice the decibel level of a car horn, anti-honking activists say.
Residents of the surrounding middle-class neighborhoods converge in their cars, honking their horns in raucous support.
At one such rally in Massachusetts last week, advocates on both sides of the issue gathered, getting their points of view across through honking, cheers and placards.
When I met him, Quijada was preparing to deliver a talk on the topic of phonoaesthetics, that hard-to-pin-down quality which gives a language its personality and makes even the most argumentative Italian sound operatic, the most romantic German sound angry, and Yankee English sound like a honking horn.
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