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He was like a high- speed locomotive, breaking everything in his path and very capable of sharing his mind with anyone he deemed deserved it
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As soon as I reached the scene, grappled with the fallen toys, and pulled Nathaniel to safety, Ozzie, purring like a locomotive, leaned in close to my son, sniffing him all over
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“I’m ready,” Amaranthe called over the chugging wheels of the locomotive
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The sound of whistles blowing all the time, and women making the most horrible sounds like a locomotive letting of its steam whistle is the one thing I remember above all
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“I want to paint, ‘Rocinante,’ on the locomotive,” he blurted suddenly, as if he was feeling guilty about something
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Michael wasn’t Michael! Edgar drove to OIJ headquarters like a runaway locomotive for the file and fingerprint card it contained
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“We have a new locomotive,” he said
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himself from the roof of the speeding locomotive and swung into
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locomotive began to pull slowly out of the Sector7 station, the
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It is now privately owned, and is located near the Texas Historical Landmark site of the Santa Fe Railroad Locomotive 5000, “Madam Queen
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The Santa Fe 5000 steam locomotive is
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noise could only be the sound of a locomotive going full speed into
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eventually be cut in half by a locomotive
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In a flash I visualized a massive train wreck as the oncoming freight train’s huge steam locomotive crashed into the freight cars of the local train that hadn’t yet fully pulled onto the siding
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Casey Jones had prided himself in making such fast time, that he’d named his locomotive “The Cannonball
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More quickly this time, I attached the second torpedo and, as I ran to the third position, I could hear the thunderous roar of the locomotive charging up to me
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By the time I would hear the first torpedo explode, just a mere hundred feet up the track, it would be too late to pull back! The locomotive would be upon me!
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Just then, I heard the sound of a locomotive pulling up alongside the shed
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He breathed heavily, like a locomotive, and it was said in the village that one could hear him breathing at night
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A locomotive engineer
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Sit in the cab of a powerful locomotive and feel the energy of the big machine as it thundered along the track," he told her
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Tired and frustrated by Eva's continuous headaches and "freezes," confused and disappointed with the new technologies and "improvements" which had seen the passing into history of the steam locomotive and the South Fort Rouge yards, the death of two students on drugs was the end of the road
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"That he had been a locomotive engineer at South Fort Route and had recently returned to work in Bratislava -- at a refinery, I think
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A toy locomotive caught his eye
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of the station the rhythmic panting of the locomotive could still be heard over the
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“We need you to come with us to the locomotive”, they said
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I realized we were the only ones in the locomotive
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his big strong hands were turning the direction lever and the locomotive was
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Suddenly, the black bottom of the locomotive covered everything she saw
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Chang grabbed the key and quickly laid down, too, to avoid being hit by the locomotive
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The numb limb hooked against a hanging spike from the locomotive and the whole body was pulled behind the speeding machine
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But when they recovered from the noise of the whistles and the snorting, all the inhabitants ran out into the street and saw Aureliano Triste waving from the locomotive, and in a trance they saw the flower-bedecked train which was arriving for the first time eight months late
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It was the longest one he had ever seen, with almost two hundred freight cars and a locomotive at either end and a third one in the middle
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Instinctively and involuntarily looking over his shoulder to ascertain that there was no one behind him in hopes of shaking the alarming feeling that he was being scrutinized, he saw nothing and heard nothing except the pinging of rain against the paned windows and the howling wind outside that sounded faintly like a locomotive
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was a locomotive in the Engine Shed and a number of freight wagons in a siding
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wagons with chalk on the ground, approximating the size of the wagons and the locomotive
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hour, the Port Captain has arranged that the locomotive will be detached and collect another
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“He says he has driven a locomotive before, sir, but we may well find out differently tomorrow” the
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disappeared inside the cab, the guard disconnected the locomotive from the rest of the train, to
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Silence fell on the scene; even the locomotive stopped its puffing and hissing
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For a few seconds, he forgot everything else and almost wondered when she would be home, before reality came back with the jarring crash of a two locomotive collision
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Yours is the only liverwurst locomotive going in my love tunnel
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” Liverwurst locomotive? How does she come up with this stuff?
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coal burning locomotive was covering them from head to toe by
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With his feet slamming the ground at the speed of a roaring locomotive, the dirt along the two-wheel path which led to their house, began to fly high into the air
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of a locomotive and trucks, that delivered raw materials from a railway siding on the
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The locomotive wheezed and shuddered, and then heaved one final sigh, relieved
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The wheels’ of the Prophesy were properly greased, and now the poor lad was figuratively lashed to the tracks before an irreversible neo-spiritual locomotive
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There is a story told of a locomotive driver who was coming around a bend and found a goods train strewn across his track
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He nibbled and sucked at leisure, then built a full head of steam into a bulldozing locomotive
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A laborer named Gerlad Richmond had experienced the misfortune of crushing two fingers in the valve port of a locomotive steam drive cylinder
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Martinmon heaved him away with a strong shove and he stumbled up against the wheel of the locomotive
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From behind the locomotive in a hushed tone, "Holy saints alive, Louie! Did you hear that?"
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Martinmon had discussed a plan with the locomotive engineer, his brother in-law, on the previous Friday when the train had made a scheduled stop at the town
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It is like a locomotive that runs on rails: you apply an emergency brake, but it will still slide on and on
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The engine that moves The Mighty Mel is a diesel locomotive, but Braithewaite also had the train outfitted with a steam pipe and I heard from the boiler plate the piercing expression of escaping vapor
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The Mighty Mel’s engineer coasted the locomotive into the station, blaring on the horn
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O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!
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A door opened, and I stood in the compartment where Captain Nemo, indisputably a world–class engineer, had set up his locomotive equipment
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We stared at them through our thick glass windows: they swam backward with tremendous speed, moving by means of their locomotive tubes, chasing fish and mollusks, eating the little
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These graceful mollusks were swimming backward by means of their locomotive tubes, sucking water into these tubes and then expelling it
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We have our clothes, some more splendid than others,—this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin; in the same way, on retiring from business, you have nothing but your real principal of about five or six millions, at the most; for third-rate fortunes are never more than a fourth of what they appear to be, like the locomotive on a railway, the size of which is magnified by the smoke and steam surrounding it
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In a very few minutes they heard the whistle of the locomotive as it drew out of the station, then, an instant before the engine itself came into sight round the bend, the brightly polished rails were illuminated, shining like burnished gold in the glare of its headlight; a few seconds afterwards the train emerged into view, gathering speed as it came along the short stretch of straight way, and a moment later it thundered across the bridge
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The California boat labored to catch up, Grover Clark’s whistle now shrieking like an out-of-control steam locomotive
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The locomotive on the observation train wailed
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Then the American athletes marched down the platform, past a looming black locomotive with swastikas emblazoned on its sides
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The rumble of wheels under the sonorous arch was traversed by a strange, piercing shriek, and Decoud, from his back seat, had a view of the people behind the carriage trudging along the road outside, all turning their heads, in sombreros and rebozos, to look at a locomotive which rolled quickly out of sight behind Giorgio Viola's house, under a white trail of steam that seemed to vanish in the breathless, hysterically prolonged scream of warlike triumph
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I made one jump on to the balcony, and beheld a locomotive under a great head of steam run out of the yard gates, screeching like mad, enveloped in a white cloud, and then, just abreast of old Viola's inn, check almost to a standstill
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Baldwin Locomotive Works has published monthly figures of shipments, new orders, and unfilled orders in dollars
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In contrast with this standard policy, now all but universally followed, we may point to the questionable practice on this important point formerly resorted to by such important companies as American Car and Foundry, American Sugar Refining and Baldwin Locomotive Works
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Baldwin Locomotive Works, in its listing application dated October 3, 1929, makes the following rather astonishing statement on depreciation:
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, United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, American Locomotive
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It was a Lionel locomotive, undoubtedly the one he had stolen from his stepbrother
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He bought him a Japanese toy truck one year, an electric locomotive and train track set another year
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At the foot of the bed, I saw a wicker basket stuffed with Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner books, a locomotive, a water-color set
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Whenever I see the movement of a locomotive I hear the whistle and see the valves
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A locomotive is moving
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Another man says the locomotive moves because its wheels go round
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To refute him someone would have to prove to him that there is no devil, or another peasant would have to explain to him that it is not the devil but a German, who moves the locomotive
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But the man who says that the movement of the wheels is the cause refutes himself, for having once begun to analyze he ought to go on and explain further why the wheels go round; and till he has reached the ultimate cause of the movement of the locomotive in the pressure of steam in the boiler, he has no right to stop in his search for the cause
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The man who explains the movement of the locomotive by the smoke that is carried back has noticed that the wheels do not supply an explanation and has taken the first sign that occurs to him and in his turn has offered that as an explanation
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The only conception that can explain the movement of the locomotive is that of a force
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Some see it as a force directly inherent in heroes, as the peasant sees the devil in the locomotive; others as a force resulting from several other forces, like the movement of the wheels; others again as an intellectual influence, like the smoke that is blown away
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I was not about to refuse the quiet joy of just sitting here in the old Laurel and Hardy flivver, looking over at the Civil War locomotive, which got stoked up twice a year and became the 9:10 from Galveston, or Lincolns death train taking him home, Lord, taking him home
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Far off, wasn’t there the merest wail of a locomotive whistle, the softest churn of some great engine?
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On the front porch, Cardiff listened, and again the faint locomotive cry stirred beyond the horizon
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But at that moment, far away in the night world, there was a single cry of a train, a locomotive, drawing near
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He heard a locomotive whistle across his dreams
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And us driving by that lonely graveyard place of sand and moonlight and poison ivy and the waves tumbling in like dusty ash on the shore, the lake pounding like a locomotive on the sand, coming and going
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We have vanquished the hydra, and it is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon
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I’ve often referred to it, somewhat fancifully, as our pietà, the love of a father for his son–the walk on that long sidewalk, surrounded by those unlit houses as the last of the elephants vanished down the main avenue toward the train yards, where a locomotive whistled and the train steamed, getting ready to rush off into the night, carrying a tumult of sound and light that would live in my memory forever
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It was the whole front end of a locomotive of the Pajaro Valley and Coast Railroad
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To refer once again to cirripedes: the larvae in the first stage have three pairs of locomotive organs, a simple single eye, and a probosciformed mouth, with which they feed largely, for they increase much in size
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So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow-birds
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This delusion is like the one men would be in if they wished to make a locomotive move by turning its wheels with their hands, forgetting entirely that the prime cause of its motion is the expansion of steam and not the motion of the wheels