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Example sentences for "railroad building"

  • Somewhat improved appliances are used in railroad building now, but though it had limitations the scraper did excellent work in its day.

  • Neither Harry nor I was a mechanic; but in the Western Dominion the man without money must turn his hand to many trades, and we had learned a good deal, railroad building.

  • It is not true that State control checks railroad building.

  • Victoria, the smallest of the colonies, has made by far the greatest progress in railroad building.

  • It was only about four miles long, but the success of the experiment gave an impetus to railroad building in other parts of Germany.

  • The success of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad stimulated railroad building in England to a marvelous extent.

  • Streator removed from Ravenna to Cleveland, and after remaining two years in the practice of medicine, turned his attention to railroad building.

  • Railroad building went on vigorously, there being fully 4,000 miles in operation at the close of Van Buren's term.

  • The homestead laws, the new American system of railroad building, and the unprecedented demand for staple food products in the industrial centres at home and abroad, peopled the prairies as if by magic.

  • To many farmers this seemed rather a skin game, not a unusual process in railroad building.

  • Meanwhile many rumors and proposals as to railroad building were in the air.

  • Then Blaisdell chatted with the boys, drawing out of them what they knew, or thought they knew, of civil engineering, especially as applied to railroad building.

  • The keenest of all disappointments was the postponement of railroad building.

  • The most striking evidence of material development is seen in railroad building.

  • Railroad building out on the open prairie far in advance of settlement was a novelty then.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    care about; certain form; commercial intercourse; foreign commerce; glory and; great change; great joy; inferior quality; nearer view; next issue; other houses; protracted meeting; railroad bonds; railroad building; railroad companies; railroad company; railroad from; railroad officials; railroad property; room with; same thing; should marry; still young; sundry kinds; think the; true womanhood