Archie Armstrong and Bill o' Burnt Bay, with the lads and men of the lost First Venture, went back to Ruddy Cove by rail and the mail-boat.
We crossed to the eastern rail of the bridge, and stood watching the deep shadows that gathered slowly and silently about the island; I have seldom looked upon anything more peaceful.
For many minutes we stood silently, leaning on the western rail of the bridge as we watched the sun set across that beautiful little water known as Coal Harbor.
We lean upon its guard-rail while fancy is busy with the past.
For what inducements," he exclaims, "does the top rail of such a fence offer to the contemplative farmer?
He perched himself on the foot rail of the bed, looking silently at her.
When the Panther laid her ice-sheathed guard-rail against the Hot Springs wharf the sun was down.
And while the Chickamin was still plowing the inshore waters on an even keel, she walked the guard rail alongside and joined her brother in the pilot house.
She halted halfway up the steps and leaned against the rail to catch her breath.
Yes, Harry, it begins to look a little as if we were about to stir the Johnnies out of the brush," says Joe Gutelius, throwing another rail on the fire.
In a few moments the fence around the cornfield was carried off rail by rail, and everywhere was heard the sound of axes and hatchets, the premonitory symptoms of roaring camp-fires, which were soon everywhere blazing along the road.
Billy Grimes in his earnestness even brought down the top-rail with him.
By and by they came to a farmer in a red shirt who pointed his spectacles at them across the top-rail of the fence at the right of the road.
Tom, breathing more easily, waited for five minutes, then picked up his rail and shoved it under the boat.
He walked close to the rail fence and approached the barn cautiously, listening for dogs; then he crawled under the fence and squatted there, waiting.
The rail curved under the strain, then the boat slid forward, grinding on the sand.
He went down again, pulling the rail after him and letting it slip to the bottom.
The current turned it end for end; he changed his rail to the other side, reached down for the bottom and gave another shove, which sent him out into the full flow of the Tennessee River.
Had Andrews' men attacked the outside rail first, the race would have ended there, with the Texas a battered wreck, strewn over the trackside.
The inside rail of the curve," Murphy said at last.
He tried to reach the bottom of the river with his rail, but the water washed it aside; then he tried to steer by holding the rail against the upstream side, but the old boat was in no mood to answer a helm.
They slid a bar under therail and pulled upward, straining.
Silently he disengaged the ends of the top railand laid it on the ground; then he took up the rail he wanted, held it above his head and swung it over the bushes until it pointed towards the river.
They ran to the rear of the train and pried one rail from the track.
Ahead of them was the black wall of the rail fence.
Tom snatched up the rail and reached for the bottom, poling her off towards midstream whenever he could get the rail down.
They're after us, but that rail will be enough to wreck them!
Once again they took the railup and battered their way through.
Another heave; and he jumped aboard, dragging therail after him.
Many lives of brave men were sacrificed in the attempt to get a line ashore; the captain, exhausted by his exertions, was swept from deck by a sea; and the rail being soon awash, the survivors took refuge in the tops.
At times he was furiously irritable, and would rail upon his family and rise in bed until he swooned with pain.
He was a little shaky, took hold of the rail of his chair, and as he sat down broke his pipe.
It was almost too much to bear in one day--but with a shaking hand she sponged the rail clean, and returned to the house.
Seeing that Winterborne was noticing him, he let his glass drop with a click upon the rail which protected the hedge, and walked away in the opposite direction.
Having none of the responsibility of navigating the ship, I was able to loll upon the rail and enjoy to the utmost the magnificent scenery of the bay.
As Downing and I stepped to the rail and gazed down upon them, the younger officer flung aboard a bamboo stick that had been cleft at one end to hold a piece of folded paper.
He was looking up when the steamer struck, and the shock threw him against the after rail of the bridge.
Yes," said Dixon, who was holding to the rail in front of him with both hands.
Immediately over the stern rail a light came and went at regular intervals on the horizon, while to eastward, at a higher elevation, a great, yellow staring eye looked out into the night.
Captain John Groome leaned his elbows on the bridge-rail and gazed into the gloom ahead.
One man was asleep inside the rail opposite the ticket office.
Adding to danger the temptation to disobedience, I go to the bridge oftener and oftener, sometimes leaning over the rail to watch for a while the chips and straws floating along the surface of the slow stream.
As I hang far over the rail of the bridge I see my face in the water and become absorbed in its distorted reflections.
Perched on the fencerail Dorrie began to compose poetry to fit the occasion.
But Doris kept to therail all the same, and sang with her fair hair blowing around her little face, already showing freckles.
The first consisted of a four-foot dry ditch in front of a five-foot rail fence, followed, in turn, by a broad and high hedge.
From New York, they were to start in a steamer for Albany, thence by rail as far as Utica, and from Utica by canal, over Buffalo, to Portsmouth.
Many old countrymen, upon their first arrival in America, are disgusted with the rail fences, and talk about the quickset hedges which they will have upon their land; but it all ends in talk.
About 850 people had come by rail from Glasgow to Dumbarton on a specially chartered train, and were conveyed the two or three miles from there to Overtoun in breaks, thirty-five in number.
Castellamare is about an hour and a half by rail from Naples, and not far from Pompeii.
There lies the greatest comfort of my uneasy life; he is one of those fools, forsooth, that are led by the nose by knaves to rail against the king and the government, and is mightily fond of being thought of a party.
I'd fain see e'en thee turn parson in a pet, o' purpose to rail at all those vices which I know thou naturally art fond of.
Now ere I dare venture to meet Courtine again, will I go by myself, rail for an hour or two, and then be good company.
Thus having urged your malice to the head, You spitefully are come to rail me dead.
I have heard theerail in my time; would thou wouldst exercise thy talent a little at present!
On going through the expenses of the day's proceedings I found that they totalled L11, having had to pay the delegates' rail fare, cost of room, tea and printing.
Further, that I be instructed to provide each delegate with lunch and pay him his rail fare together with 2s.
Day ever took a penny piece for time, rail fare or out-of-pocket expenses, and on one occasion these three gentlemen paid for the delegates' lunch at one of the General Council meetings.
Mr. Winfrey also offered at this meeting to find work on the co-partnership farm at Walpole for sixteen men, the General Secretary to pay their rail fare.
But you shouldn't have put the pin back in the rail when you was through with it, all the same.
But what Conroy noted was that no pin stood in the rail where the mate had fallen, and the hole that might have held one was empty.
He walked to the rail and flung the thing forth with hysterical violence to the sea.
He saw him smiling and talking over the rail to the girl.
At the same moment, Conroy, still stooping to the bell-lanyard, felt the Villingen lower her nose and slide down in one of her disconcerting curtseys; he caught at the rail to steady himself.
The pilot's orders rattled like hail on a roof; she came round, and old Captain Price had a glimpse of a knot of frantic men at the taff-rail of the ship they barely cleared.
He leaned against the after rail of the fore-castle head, where a ventilator somewhat screened him from the bitter wind that blew out of the dark, and gazed ahead at the murk.
The mate, as the deck slanted, slipped and reached for the hand-rail with an ejaculation.
Caracas is but seven miles inland from the port as the crow flies, but the actual distance by rail is twenty-two miles.
Of course, the shortest and most direct route to Bolivia’s capital and chief cities is by rail from either of the Pacific ports of Mollendo, in Peru, or Arica or Antofagasta, in Chile.
Farther north, and not yet connected by rail with Sucré, lies the present capital, La Paz, the actual seat of government.
