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Example sentences for "rail road"

  • The same paper contains an account of an "elegant new locomotive," which says: RAIL ROAD.

  • The rule forbade any colored person leaving there by rail road or steamboat, without such applicant had been weighed, measured, and then given a bond signed by unquestionable signatures, well known.

  • They don't need a post-office no more than a rail road wants a guide post.

  • Can a chap catch a likeness flying along a rail road?

  • Halifax is nothing without a river or back country; add nothing to nothing, and I guess you have nothing still--add a Rail Road to the Bay of Fundy, and how much do you get?

  • Rail road inaugurated in Sardinia, running between Turin and Susa; the king and queen, the government officials, and a great concourse of people participating.

  • Rail road accident on the Great Western railway in Canada, by which a great number of persons were killed at a bridge over the Des Jardins canal.

  • He suggested to the emperor Nicholas the project of a rail road from St. Petersburg to Moscow, a portion of which was undertaken under his direction, and first opened in 1837, and since prosecuted by the government.

  • There are here no mountain barriers to obstruct the construction of a rail road in any direction.

  • The leading motive in petitioning for this Charter undoubtedly was to enable the City to issue Bonds on account of Rail Road subscriptions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    given away; higher civilization; leave town; little joke; national history; provincial council; railcar carrier; railroad bonds; railroad building; railroad property; railroad track; railway carriage; railway companies; railway construction; railway rates; railway station; railway stations; railway train; railway work; range guns; several hundred; she chose; teaspoonful baking; this rule; till noon; young maid