"Railroad train" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in America, of course, when he gets into a railroad train is to light a cigar and begin talking to the fellow next to him. There were two of us in the railway carriage compartment on my way down into Surrey. I made a number of amiable observations; I asked a number ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... full of air at the end of the long line gave was great and even the powerful swordfish could not tow it for long. In a few minutes he slackened his speed and the barrel bobbed to the surface. But the swordfish was still traveling like a railroad train, in short ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... pulled helplessly on the reins. When he got her halted the thing had disappeared, and both boy and beast turned heads toward the still terrible sounds of its going. It was the first time either had ever seen a railroad train, and the lad, with a sickly smile that even he had shared the old nag's terror, got her back into the road. At the gate sat a farmer in his ...
— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.
... to the northwest like a pompano skipping along the water in a shoal. Then for three days it blows like a railroad train, out of the north, and we all shiver," ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
... my apprenticeship to running a Secession railroad train, with a Rebel regiment on board. The engine behaved admirably, and I began to feel quite safe, for she obeyed every command I gave her, as if she acknowledged me her ...
— Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army • William G. Stevenson
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