| In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs. |
| Serious competition to railroads began in the 1920s in the form of the automobile, the motorbus, the highway truck, and, later, commercial airplanes. |
| From the road came the roar of a motorbus, like a muffled drum. |
