After a scant and hasty lunch they were placed out along the tracks to the roundhouse where the great bulk of the mob was assembled.
As the day wore on the men gradually congregated at the roundhouse of the road at Twenty-eighth Street, but did not attempt or threaten any violence.
On Sunday morning the roundhouse and all the locomotives which it contained were destroyed by fire.
General Brinton came personally to one of the windows of the roundhouseand appealed to the mob to desist, warning them that if they did not he must and would fire.
They've fired the roundhouse on us, but the rifles and ammunition that came to-night are upstairs here.
As Stanley rose from his midnight meal, Atkinson ran in with word that a band of rioters, well armed, had attacked a train of boarding-cars defended by the roundhouse men.
To the right they heard the shouts of the men who were fighting the fire at the roundhouse and the hot crackling of the flames.
I was not in the roundhouse when the Kid was ordered to change, but he went direct to the office and kicked, but to no purpose.
I was 'chewing the rag' with a roundhouse foreman about it when Old Andy came along.
I come in here riding on the trucks of your mail train about three weeks ago, and the fellers up in the roundhousehave been lettin' me feed and snooze there.
As I approached the town, I realized that I could never get through it to the boarding-house or the roundhouse with those two bundles that looked like country sausages.
The roundhouse men and a few hostlers were still working, so it was an easy thing to get a yard engine out.
To make matters worse the roundhouse men and the hostlers caught the fever, and out they went.
Griscom was on his way to the roundhouse to get his locomotive in trim for a regular afternoon trip.
Some roundhouse hands, passing by, waved him a genial hail.
Ralph hailed a roundhouse hand carrying a bucket of oil.
In order to do so, I must know every step of the service, from roundhouse to train dispatcher's desk.
Ralph Fairbanks never valued his practical roundhouse experience so greatly as during the ensuing fifteen minutes.
Get a roundhouse clearance of clean flues and headlights, and try it," answered Ralph.
Who is going to deny that the engineer has a superb responsibility--from the moment when he arrives at the roundhouse and signs for and receives his engine to the moment when he "checks out" at the terminal at the far end of his run?
Forty minutes before the leaving time of Freeman's train her big K-I engine backs into the terminal from the roundhouse and is quietly fastened to the long string of heavy cars.
What is the duty of the engineer in event of his discovering a safety appliance which is in an unsafe condition when taking an engine from roundhouse territory?
Or would you report each special defect so it could be located after the engine was put in roundhouse or on designated track whether it had steam pressure in boiler or not?
And that same birthday he took me down through the middle of the Village of Cream Puffs to the public square near the Roundhouse of the Big Spool.
If you take the top off the roundhouse you will see a big spool with a long string winding up around the spool.
By the time the noon whistle blew at the roundhouse every trail and road into Sleepy Cat showed dust--some of them an abundance.
At two o'clock the roundhouse whistle blew a long blast.
When I looked again it was old 992 from the roundhouse escorting Number Eight to Springfield.
The soldiers were attacked so furiously that they ran into a roundhouse of the railway company for protection.
I'll circulate the subscription among the officials, and if any plan to have the roundhouse crowd chip in a trifle comes to your mind, why, start it down the rails.
It was two days later as he made the short cut to the roundhouse about noon, that Ralph was greeted by a new discovery that fairly took his breath away.
Ned Davis, the red-headed call boy for the roundhouse of the Great Northern, familiarly known as "Torchy.
They now recognized the man who had entered the roundhouse with the president as Lane, superintendent of the Mountain Division of the Great Northern.
The call boy at the roundhousewas a great friend of the young engineer.
His old railroad friend was passing the house on his way to the roundhouse to report for duty.
Ralph could not tell until he reported at the roundhouse after twelve o'clock when and how he would start out again.
When Ralph got to the roundhouse he found Fogg in the doghouse chatting with his friends.
The fear that what Zeph heard downtown at the roundhouse might be true," replied Mrs. Fairbanks.
Ralph arose from his seat in the summer-house, telling Ned Davis that Fogg and himself would report at the roundhouse at once.
Tony Briotti swung a roundhouse right that missed and sent him sprawling off balance.
Then, as Nangolat's thrust carried him close, Tony let loose a roundhouse that caught the Ifugao squarely on the jaw, whirled him sideways, and dropped him like a log in the dust of the road.
I went down to the roundhouse an' waited for 'm to come in off a run, an' apologized to 'm.
For a fireman he was scrupulously clean, always washing up in the roundhouse before he came home.
Ralph went down to the roundhouseand met many of his friends.
When they reached the roundhouse the fireman started straight for home.
Fogg had forgotten all about his fears of the day previous when he reported at the roundhouse the next morning.
Nothing moving but the regulars," reported the roundhouse foreman.
It was a long time since the young engineer had done roundhouse duty.
The door of the roundhouse was closed, so I did not fear the inmates would observe me entering the cabin.
This roundhouse (which was really square, of course, like most roundhouses on board ship) was very plentifully supplied with ports.
If braces were to be tightened, the lee of the roundhouse would be a poor hiding-place for me.
There were the tradesmen peering out of the roundhouse ports, with never a thought in their minds of disobeying his injunction.
The roundhouse whistle woke him from his reveries.
Yes, so the fire-bell would ring and the roundhouse whistle would blow, and everybody would come running out.
The sidewalk which ran in front of the Kronborgs' house was the one continuous sidewalk to the depot, and all the train men and roundhouse employees passed the front gate every time they came uptown.
The pony-engine went into theroundhouse until the real Prince should come.
A yard caller had summoned the train-crew while the roundhouse caller was rounding up the two men of the engine-crew.
Some of these are in roundhouse form, for convenience in handling equipment under construction; others are set side by side and easily reached by use of a long transfer table.
The caller tells the engineer and fireman to report at the roundhouse at 5:45 A.
He has supervision over smaller roundhouses but at any of the larger of these structures there is a roundhouse foreman in direct charge.
Now the denizens of the roundhouse are iron horses, and in their great size as they rest within their house they are indicative of the progress that has been made in the design and construction of railroad equipment.
By eleven, whole brigades of locomotives may be under way, moving from their stalls in some giant roundhouse out toward another division whose superintendent is fairly shrieking for power.
When such tragedy shows its head it is time for the stove committee--the men who gossip in roundhouse corners and the yardmaster's office--to talk in whispers.
When they were done shoving and bunting there, they had no time to run back to the roundhouse and get a rake.
Its crews, having finished their run, desert it for the time being, and it comes within the charge of the roundhouse foreman and his "hostlers.
It seemed that he had missed the rake that morning when they had started out from the yard roundhouse to take the Limited down over the division.
Haney countered with a roundhouse blow that glanced off Braun's cheek.
The lanky man lashed out a terrific roundhouse blow.
The roundhouse bell, rung every hour by the watchman on his rounds, made far-off melancholy tolling through the night.
Somewhere beyond the neighborhood where Emmy Lou lived with Aunt Cordelia and Uncle Charlie, was the roundhouse and the yards of a railroad.
I turned round at once, and walked out of the roundhouse to the quarterdeck, where, two minutes after, the whole of the passengers were crowding from below, the Judge and his daughter already on the poop.
There was I, too, every time I came on deck and saw those roundhouse doors, my heart leapt into my throat, and I didn't know port from starboard!
To which from many an ancient office, from many a greasyroundhouse comes a loud amen.
A green apprentice coupling an engine to a tender at a roundhouse managed to pound together the couplings of the wrong pairs of hose, which the engine inspector had failed to notice were badly worn.
The yardmaster has one caller and the roundhouse foreman another.
Without realizing it and without knowing why, they redouble their efforts; things begin to move, and the incident goes down in the legends of the division to be the talk of the caboose and the roundhouse for years to come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roundhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: compartment; haymaker; hook; roundhouse; swing
