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Example sentences for "special train"

  • Sir James rushed off in a cab to Euston Square, and asked for a special train.

  • Yesterday I went with the Indian princes by special train to Woburn.

  • I was on a special train, if I remember correctly, without any guard.

  • On Sunday, October 11th, having put in motion my whole force, I started myself for Corinth, in a special train, with the battalion of the Thirteenth United States Regulars as escort.

  • Sheridan came at once by special train, but reached there after the troops were all off.

  • Mr. Blithers has arranged for a special train to bring them up--a train de luxe, you may be sure, both as to equipment and occupant.

  • The Grand Duke and his party left Interlaken by special train early in the afternoon, and great was Robin's relief when Hobbs returned with the word that they were safely on their way to the capital of Switzerland.

  • Prince, and I'll send you down to New York by special train," said Mr. Blithers.

  • He came down in a special train on Tuesday night--the night of the great flood--and his train was wrecked at Wymondham.

  • I have an appointment on the Continent of great importance, as you may judge by the fact that at Liverpool Street I chartered a special train.

  • I understand that you have ordered a special train to Harwich.

  • I am going to telephone to the railway people to arrange for a special train as soon as you are ready to go on.

  • Sitting alone with a Crown Princess in a special train, with a bullet wound in your arm, is not apparently an ideal situation in which to exercise it.

  • All night, with a clear track and a special train, he had been speeding to the Capital, anxious and fearful, for in an inter-regnum hours count as days against the absent claimant to a throne.

  • Half an hour later, we had left the convent far behind us in its stately solitude and were driving down the other slope of the mountain to Grenoble, where we were to find a special train to take us back to Aix-les-Bains.

  • The league sent over 300 women to Albany by special train on Feb.

  • Goltra offered to charter a special train to bring Senator Gray, a Republican, to Jefferson City in time to cast his vote.

  • One fall he failed to appear, and there was no special train to meet me.

  • I said to him: "I learn that your father is going to Mount McGregor to-morrow, and I have come to tender him a special train.

  • When the New York Democratic delegation left the city for the Democratic national convention they had engaged a special train to leave from the Grand Central Station.

  • You have come here by special train to warn me that I face ruin; and you pretend to have no inkling of the nature of my peril!

  • At the same hour a special train with a guaranteed right of way was thundering along its road-bed with a wake of red cinders and black smoke trailing from its stack and a single passenger in its single coach.

  • Meantime I shall arrange for a special train.

  • Having confidence in their firmness and discretion, I selected Governors Swain and Graham, who left in a few moments after their appointment, on a special train, accompanied by Dr.

  • From thence, attended by the Raleigh companies, and by special guards of honor, appointed by cities and towns of the State, and by the family of the deceased, they were conveyed by special train to the station at Hillsborough.

  • I have a special train waiting to take you to the capital.

  • Now, I invite you, in order that the truth may be placed beyond doubt, to accompany an envoy from this court to Bekal by special train to-day, and there agree as to what has really happened.

  • A special train is waiting, and my instructions are to escort you to the frontier.

  • Another urgent message was sent to the superintendent in Madrid repeating the offer for a special train, the same sum to himself if he expedited the train.

  • I also sent a telegram to Hernandez, president of the road in Paris, offering 5,000 francs for a special train.

  • I demanded that he should at once direct the military officials to send me on to Madrid by special train.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "special train" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fire broke; keep away; learn whether; putting down; received orders; special administrative; special agent; special cases; special correspondent; special election; special feature; special form; special grace; special interest; special jury; special kind; special licence; special message; special messenger; special notice; special occasions; special providences; special purpose; special treatment; special type; special value