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railway car
1. The Nationalists met with the terrorists in a railway car in the middle of the Victoria Falls railway bridge
2. Inside, Colling lifted a battered coffepot from the coal stove in one end of the third-class railway car and poured himself a mug of what he discovered was bitter-tasting ersatz brew
3. The trucks were driven off the railway cars, and Major Pritchard squeezed into the Henschel that contained his cargo, while his sergeant rode in the other
4. The man who was sleeping on the same bench realized what he had done and he felt like crawling under the railway carriage
5. Prior to the cessation of hostilities, Hitler insisted that the French must undergo the humiliation of signing the armistice in the very same railway carriage at Compiegne that Marshall Foch had dictated surrender terms to the Germans in 1918
6. "It is not good for man to live alone," were his first words as he embraced her largely in the door of the railway carriage, while the porter, in a fever to get out the hand luggage and run and attend to other passengers, had to wait till he had done
7. They made the journey in Jamie's private railway car
8. The private railway car Jamie ordered built for himself was seventy-one feet long and had four paneled staterooms that could accommodate twelve persons, a salon that could be used as an office, a dining compartment, a barroom and a fully equipped kitchen
9. Five minutes later, Kate and Banda were safely inside the private railway car
10. Riding from Johannesburg to Klipdrift in the private railway car, David said, "You know, all this will belong to you in a few years
11. We've got refrigerated railway cars, but no one's been able to come up with a way to refrigerate trucks
12. "Send them to Cape Town in the private railway car, David," Kate offered
13. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I felt more and more plainly, that what I had started on was a journey in time, into the past; a fearful enough prospect for the most consistent, but to him who had not known how to preserve against his impulses the order and continuity of his life--so that at times it presented itself to his conscience as a series of betrayals--
14. Straight from a railway carriage I had walked into the great city with something of the feeling of a traveller penetrating into a vast and unexplored wilderness
15. She was bright and enthusiastic as ever, but as he sat opposite her in the railway carriage, she seemed to look frail
16. Beer?’ He climbed into the railway carriage, motioning for me to join him
17. ’ He didn’t look at me while he said this, just moved around the railway carriage, a bulky, yet oddly graceful presence within its narrow walls
18. ‘I love your railway carriage,’ I said
19. I kept thinking about that field, the neat confines of the railway carriage, the way Sam had strolled down the field with a hen under one arm, as if he was carrying a precious parcel
20. Had he mentioned me by name? I could picture the two of them in the kitchen of the little railway carriage, having this earnest discussion over tea and toast
21. He climbed heavily to his feet and walked off to the railway carriage, leaving me staring behind him
22. They had headed over to the railway carriage with Jake and Jake’s father to fetch Sam’s belongings
23. Near by a loud voice directed hurriedly, "Push that railway car out of the way!" At the rush of bare feet to execute the order Captain Mitchell skipped back a pace or two; the car, suddenly impelled by many hands, flew away from him along the rails, and before he knew what had happened he found himself surrounded and seized by his arms and the collar of his coat
24. We were out of sight of London now and the soldier had loosed a bottle of whiskey from his kit bag and, after initial reluctance, the young woman who had been forced to share our company took as elegant a sip as one could manage while we were balanced over the coupling of two railway carriages
25. Women both old and young regarded travelling by steam as presumptuous and dangerous, and argued against it by saying that nothing should induce them to get into a railway carriage; while proprietors, differing from each other in their arguments as much as Mr
26. The Bolsheviks would have to travel in a train with a single railway carriage, and no one was allowed on or off during the journey: It was to be a ‘sealed’ train
27. the cuckoo, there is the railway car; where there was a tenderboat, there is now the steamboat; people speak of Fecamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days
28. Returning the game day, I noticed in the railway carriage an unattractive-looking young man, not very poorly though grubbily dressed, with a pimply face and a muddy dark complexion
29. She gave him no encouragement, but every time she met him there surged up in her heart that same feeling of quickened life that had come upon her that day in the railway carriage when she saw him for the first time
30. " To be sure, in railway carriages ; oh, what a bore you are ! There's no need to explain
31. " And he found out that all these little boys and girls were children just like himself; that some had been frozen in the baskets in which they had as babies been laid on the doorsteps of well-to-do Petersburg people, others had been boarded out with Finnish women by the Foundling and had been suffocated, others had died at their starved mother's breasts (in the Samara famine), others had died in the third-class railway carriages from the foul air; and yet they were all here, they were all like angels about Christ, and He was in the midst of them and held out His hands to them and blessed them and their sinful mothers
32. And as to the third of our trio, Epanchin, of course after that little affair with the poodle in the railway carriage, it was all up between us
33. “Poodle? What was that? And in a railway carriage? Dear me,” said Nastasia, thoughtfully, as though trying to recall something to mind
34. “Well, he sat down in the railway carriage and began singing, then he cried a bit
35. When Nekhludoff came to the station, the prisoners were all seated in railway carriages with grated windows
36. —, rapidity of motion of railway cars, xxxv, 197