I think there must have been several lightning strokes, but the rails acted as conductors, and preserved the cars from injury.
As soon as this region of sandhills had been passed we were again on the level plain on which the rails had been laid so easily.
A telegraph wire united the works with Mikhailov, and from there a little Decauville engine worked the trains which brought along the rails and sleepers.
The plan was possible, and if there were a few rails useless, we could bring to the front those we had already run over, and in this way get over the difficulty.
The oasis of Samarkand had already been passed, and the rails were now laid across a long horizontal plain.
When these six thousand kilometres of rails are laid, Petersburg will be within six days of the Japan Sea.
The rails have been taken up for about a hundred yards, and the engine, after bumping over the sleepers, has come to a standstill in a sandhill.
One by one the sleepers were replaced, the rails were laid end to end, and about four o'clock in the afternoon the gap was bridged.
As therails were heavy we divided ourselves into detachments.
The rails had been shifted for about a hundred yards.
An old man in a monk's robe came forward out of the shadow of the choir and stood behind the marble rails and looked down at the boy's prostrate figure, wonderingly.
They were in the highest spirits, although the meal was taken under difficult circumstances, for all were seated on the upper rails of the trucks, there being no room for them to sit down among the horses.
We must keep a bright look-out on the way, for the trains have been fired upon, and at any moment the Boers may pull up the rails and block the roads altogether.
The only wonder to me is," another officer said, "that the Boers did not take up and drag away the rails all the way from here to Estcourt.
In this expedition we met with little game; one duck, three or four shags, and about that number of rails or sea-pies, being all we got.
In one of the deepest rolls the arm-chest on the quarter- deck was torn out of its place and overset, leaning against the rails to leeward.
If we had paid no attention to the string whatever and followed the rails when we came to the main gang way, we would have been home and in bed by this time!
The boys proceeded along the gangway, walking between the rails of the tramway by means of which the coal was delivered at the bottom of the shaft.
To brace this bark sheathing the Yahgan made ribs of split saplings that looked like hickory barrel hoops--ribs at once strong and light--while the rails and beams were made of round wood.
Peering between the rails he saw a tall, dark shape, with gigantic head, vast antlers, and portentous bulk of shoulder, step noiselessly from the thicket and stand motionless.
But as he walked home at night, and gave himself time to think over what had taken place with deliberation, he stopped in the gloom of a deserted street and leaning against the rails burst into tears.
I cannot understand how so many people can bear to loiter about in that way--leaning on the rails and doing nothing.
After the cabin was finished, he split enough rails to build a fence around the farm.
Their decks were painted a gleaming white, and their brass rails shone in the sun.
Already, through his fingers, I felt the hum in the rails that every tank-town-reared kid knows.
Through Clyde's, I could hear the blind whuffle of wind in the girders, feel the crude wood of ties and the iron-cold molding of rails in the star-dark.
Upstairs, in the galleries, they leaned on the rails and recovered their breath, exhausted by the terrific eruption; and then fell to chattering like a flock of small birds that have been chasing a flying hawk.
They hung over the rails and made an ear-splitting din, so that the whole deep, narrow shaft was filled with an unendurable uproar.
Those rails ought to have been taken down first thing this morning, so that a line might be begun for the small trucks.
Now go and see that those rails are taken down directly, and that a gang of men begin to lay them at once toward the opening to the great cavern where the water flows.
I whipped her, and if I did it once I did it five hundred times, but I found she could not; so I put her to carrying rails with the men.
He had escaped, and taken refuge under a pile of rails that were on some timbers up a little from the ground.
In March, 1833, twenty-five or thirty miles south of Columbia, on the great road through Sumpterville district, they saw a large company of female slaves carrying rails and building fence.
Such, indeed, was the rapidity with which the rails were laid that camp had to be moved from two to three miles westward every day, so that the men never knew what it was to sleep twice in the same place.
All day a cold rain had fallen, coating the rails with a thin layer of ice.
Such was the rapidity with which the rails were laid and telegraph offices erected, that when winter set in, fifty telegraph operators were needed to take charge of the empty stations.
In the case of a bar-hive super, after most of the bees have left it, it can be placed across a couple of rails or sticks, when the top cover may be unscrewed and detached.
The space between the rails may be about twelve inches, measured withinside.
Simply because English rails came into competition with the iron produced in our great establishments, while the English labourers were only your rivals.
What we ask is, that the entry of cloth and rails should be left free.
Before us, alongside the collection of moving houses, was the main line, the limitless street where the white rails disappeared at both ends, swallowed up in distance.
Take, for instance, your ton of steelrails worth forty-two dollars.
The furniture was Jacobean--the chairs with ladder backs and cane seats; a wide dresser, lined with colored plates; a long narrow table with rails and bulging legs.
And if those iron rails were made South and the Negro did not forge them, it was because the boss had an acute attack of colorphobia and gave the job to some nondecitizenized, ready-to-work emigrant.
The glittering iron rails which led you on lightning express to this city were laid by Negro hands after he had tunneled the mountains, leveled the hills, and filled the hollows.
All de plantation wuz fenced in, dat is all de fields, wid rails; de rails wuz ten feet long.
He would make us chillun go down whare de niggers wuz splittin' rails an' peel dis bark off de logs befo' dey wuz split.
I'se seed her split 350 rails a day many's de time.
The Harlem Railroad Company have laid down a section of their road with cast iron rails of a new construction, invented by Mr. Imley.
These rails are highly approved, and are expected to supersede the common wrought rails to a considerable extent.
Ned, keeping close to the ground, crossed the rails in the fortunate shadow of one of the posts.
If I did, I fear she'd jump the rails and I'd have a wreck on my hands.
He sprang across the rails after the conductor of the accommodation train that was just starting on.
I have the best equipment of any electric locomotive on the rails today.
The arrow on the speedometer crept around the dial and Ned's eye was more often fastened on that than it was on the glistening twin rails which mounted the grade.
You understand that their rails do not begin to engage the grades that our engineers thought necessary when the old H.
The whole locomotive swerved into the siding, but for several breathless seconds Tom was not at all sure that the monster would not jump the rails and head into the ditch!
As it seemed to joggle back into balance, gain its uprightness, as it were, the inventor saw the great, log-braced bumper between the two rails at the end of the siding.
The rails laid along the inside of the stockade made a two-mile track, as well ballasted as any regular railroad right of way.
First of all Tom had arranged to have built all around inside the stockade a track of rails heavy enough to stand the wear and tear of the heaviest locomotive built.
Remember, Ned, that I have set out to accomplish what was never done before--to drive a locomotive over the rails at two miles a minute.
A little more and the electric locomotive would have shot off the end of the rails into the ditch.
He watched Leh Shin prowl carefully round and climb with monkey-like agility from the rails to the window-ledge, where he peered in through the shutters, raising a broken lath to see into the interior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
