He had found himself alone in a compartment of an express train in which were also a young lady and a man, both total strangers to him.
As an express train on the Boston & Providence road was that day running to Boston about noon and at a rate of speed of some forty miles an hour, it came in contact with a horse and wagon at a grade crossing in the town of Foxborough.
But you must not drink," broke in the official, "when you are going out on an express train.
It is that there are only two places for an express train; she should either be on time or in the ditch.
This is the first instance on record of overtaking and boarding an express train going at the rate of sixty-four miles an hour, and yet it is said that the rider (Murphy) was not doing his best.
Another followed almost in its wake, both torpedoes travelling at the speed of an express train.
The hills around East Grinstead it surmounted at 40 miles an hour, dashing down the inclines at the speed of an express train, and swerving time after time to avoid lumbering farm wagons.
Right, Ned, and then picture the damage such a mass could inflict if it were launched with the speed of an express train against a ship's hull.
Then it retreated two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent trail comparable to those swirls of steam that shoot behind the locomotive of an express train.
The ship scudded along like an air balloon borne by the wind over some prairie on land; but it would be more accurate to say that we sat in the lounge as if we were riding in a coach on an express train.
On a full tide of water we rushed between the rocks that seemed to dash by as do objects by an express train going at full speed, not a foot to spare on either side.
We were rushing down on it with the speed of an express train.
It won't take us long if we keep up this gait," I said, as we swept downward like an express train, and the walls going by as fences do when you look out from a car window.
This seems fast enough to us, who think that one mile a minute is good time for an express train, but it is slow compared with the pace of many of the stars.
A spider runs fast compared with a snail, but either is terribly slow compared with an express train; and the speed of an express train itself is nothing to the velocity of light.
Everything at the equator is thus moving along at the rapid rate of about 1000 miles an hour, or between sixteen and seventeen times as fast as an express train.
Let us imagine, for instance, that we possess an express train which is capable of running anywhere, never stops, never requires fuel, and always goes along at sixty miles an hour.
The analogy which seems most suited to our purpose here, and one which has often been employed by writers, is borrowed from the rate at which an express train travels.
The Projectile was now moving with great rapidity--with nothing like its initial velocity, but still eight or nine times faster than an express train.
Falling from the summit of St. Peter's, it strikes the earth at the rate of 300 miles an hour, or five times quicker than the rapidest express train.
Dawn is very gradual in those latitudes, and steadily the light grew clear and the canoe began going through the water like an express train.
The bear, which was coming like an express train, was not seventy-five yards away, and the rifle was ten.
Accordingly, on seeing an express train approach, he ran a short distance up the side of the cutting, and began to wave a handkerchief very energetically, which he had secured to a stick, as a signal to stop.
The gentleman immediately ordered an express train, but as some time elapsed before the steam could be got up, it was feared the gentleman and the stoker would not reach Glasgow in time to secure the culprit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "express train" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
