"Railway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time in the seazen of 18— (mor I dar not rewheel) there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentleman, whom I shall danomminate Munseer ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the Mississippi and under the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, I fired, and was promoted, on a prairie road in the Great Basin well known in the railway world. I was much like the rest of the boys until I commenced to try to get up a substitute for the link motion. I read an article in a scientific paper from the pen of a jackass who showed a Corliss engine card, and then blackguarded the railroad mechanics ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... on the Ban Righ was, however, nothing to that which it created in Aberdeen. The boys and loafers, and women with babies, who waited at the landing shed, followed en masse as the Markam party took their way to the railway station; even the porters with their old-fashioned knots and their new-fashioned barrows, who await the traveller at the foot of the gang-plank, followed in wondering delight. Fortunately the Peterhead train was just about to start, so that the martyrdom was not unnecessarily ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... he had more to say to me, but we were interrupted. There was a knock at the door, and the man entered whom I had seen talking with Feurgeres upon the platform of the railway station. Feurgeres rose at once, calm and prepared. They talked for a while so rapidly that I could not follow them. Then ...
— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... appreciate the amount of heaviness, 486,000 lbs. Well, 486,000 lbs. is nearly 217 tons; and one of those railway trucks that you see laden with coals at the stations can carry, perhaps, from eight to ten tons, without breaking down. Say ten tons as an outside estimate, and then think of piling the contents of twenty-one such trucks on your roof, and ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
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