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Example sentences for "station"

Lexicographically close words:
statically; statics; statim; stating; statio; stationary; stationed; stationer; stationers; stationery
  1. The Beziers station is about a mile from the town; and on approaching it early in the morning, I found a crowd of people collected on the banks, looking at men dragging the canal with huge hooks at the end of poles.

  2. The superintendent put his hands on the table and pondered deeply and sadly--that he would not get a nap today, that he would have to go to the station and set matters on foot.

  3. After long arguments and hesitations Mark had been dispatched to the police station with the revolver and cartridges and a circumstantial account of the strange visitor.

  4. The precaution proved to be a necessary one, for the luggage of the unfortunate bachelor was mercilessly overhauled at every customs station on the remainder of the journey.

  5. The stations consisted of an officer and one or two men, who were expected by the regulations not to sleep at the station more than six nights in the fortnight.

  6. Harry Lumley, a despatcher, lay on a table all Wednesday in the Peru station of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, which the water had invaded, and kept open the line for relief trains.

  7. The water put the lighting plants and the city water station out of commission.

  8. The tracks leading into the Union Station were completely blocked and the few trains arriving discharged their passengers on the outskirts of the city.

  9. There were a trading station and stockade at the place in 1825 presided over by pioneer J.

  10. Cruising the southern end of Riverdale, where it was feared there would be found a big death list, Captain Gillooly, in charge of the crew from the United States life saving station at Louisville, Ky.

  11. It took much time to prepare card indexes of sufferers' wants and to make requisitions on the central relief station at the Auditorium for supplies.

  12. Thousands Are Homeless City Under Martial Law--Communications Cut Off with Outside World--Relief Station Established at the Y.

  13. The pumping station had been started up the previous night, two locomotives sent by the Lake Shore Railroad furnishing the power.

  14. A train on that road practically swam into the Union Station at 9 P.

  15. The Central Union Station was abandoned and all trains leaving or entering the city were detoured.

  16. My desire to stake you to the comforts and dignity your station deserves remains unchanged.

  17. Her trunks are over at the station now, to be expressed to Buffalo.

  18. The railway station is a few miles below here.

  19. I used to drive the station bus fer the hotel down below Spanish Falls.

  20. She was afoot, having walked from the station below.

  21. She had had a night letter from Tom that morning in which he said that he was bringing a young lady friend down from the north,--and would she meet them at the station and put her up for a couple of days?

  22. Barnes took the time to assure himself of these facts, and smiled faintly as he drove away from the railway station after the departure of the train.

  23. He got out at Fetchworth station three hours later, hailed the only hack that stood there--for he had forgotten to apprise any one at the Towers of his quick return--and drove straightway to Withersby Hall.

  24. Whether he dropped into a public 'ouse on the way or not, I don't know, or whether he took the short cut to the station across the Fens isn't for me to say.

  25. You mean to say," he said sharply, "that Collins went out last night to fetch my papers from the station and was fool enough to take the short cut across the Fens?

  26. If they're late, well, wouldn't it be worth your while to go down to the station and 'ave a gentle word or two with one of the officials there?

  27. Having been arrested on the east side of Broadway, the old man was taken to precinct station No.

  28. This seemed strange, but he explained that there was an early morning train from station near the Northfield premises.

  29. At the station he had refused to tell his name or residence.

  30. Escorted by the crestfallen Michael, he left, returning to the station for money and watch.

  31. A hill in Richmond Park is still shewn as remarkable for having been the station from whence Henry VIII.

  32. You are not at all content to remain in that station of life to which you were born; you like playing at being all sorts of other persons.

  33. Antoine was at the Barton station with the touring-car Uncle Bash had bought to establish communication with the village.

  34. We came from the lakes and mountain regions of Upper Austria, and already yearned towards Munich, the Bavarian capital, as our next station and brief resting place.

  35. It is the first station we come to, and is the capital of the ancient dukedom of Saxon-Altenburg.

  36. At dusk we were on the banks of the Elbe, at the ferry station near Pillnitz, the summer dwelling of the King of Saxony.

  37. The boys ran around to the other side of the station and found out from the conductor that the train which had come in was that for which they had been waiting.

  38. It did not take those in the automobile long to cover the half mile which lay between them and Haven Point, where the railroad station was located.

  39. We rattled along the excellent railway in a style calculated to make the "limited express" look to its laurels, and in less than two hours drew up at the station of Aïasulouk.

  40. He never spoke, and when they reached the station he took his ticket and got into the carriage without the least reference to Hammond, who followed him quietly.

  41. The insignificant station-house and platform, with a small coffee-house and some dwellings, reminded me of a prairie station in our Western country.

  42. When we came into the station at Smyrna the night had fallen.

  43. The local distance from Winchester to Stephenson's Station by the railroad is six miles and to Summit Station twelve miles.

  44. Reames Station on the Weldon railroad; didn't know but what we were marching round to go into the back door of Petersburg or Richmond.

  45. It's been a beautiful day; left camp at 6 o'clock this morning and reached Brandy Station at 9 a.

  46. Noles Station as did the First Division of our Corps.

  47. When nearing Atler's Station about noon we were ordered back to support the Second Corps which was engaging the enemy near Totopotomy Creek.

  48. And she must not only be rescued from all debasing anxieties about her subsistence, but placed in a station of affluence and honor; though I believe she truly cares for none of these things.

  49. In 1882 the Pearl Street Edison station in New York was put into service and was the first of the great central stations.

  50. She was fond of quoting the words of Thomas Garrett,[38] whose house was for years a station of the Underground Railway, and who helped many slaves to freedom.

  51. She was in the North Station one day, about to start for Gardiner, as was also the setter Diana, crated and very unhappy.

  52. At Middletown station found the teachers from the West [Denver and Iowa], who started the 'Battle Hymn' when they saw me approaching.

  53. Accordingly, she bought second-class tickets to a neighboring station and first-class ones from there to Czerwinsk.

  54. And outside the station it was even more military.

  55. When he reached the station he was disappointed to find that no one was on duty except a sleepy inspector, who was even less inclined to listen to reason than the constables.

  56. Supposing you are right, and that German spies really own Bray Park, and are using it as a central station for sending news that they glean out of England, what could be done about it?

  57. Except for this, Waterloo station is closed to all civilians.

  58. A considerable space in and near the station had been roped off and sentries refused to allow any to pass who could not prove that they had a right to do so.

  59. Here the bustle that had been so marked about the station was absent.

  60. This time, just as Harry had guessed, the flashes were being sent due east, and judging from the first case that the next station would be less than ten miles away, he decided to ride straight on for about that distance.

  61. But when they reached the station they found they had some minutes to wait for a train, and they sat down on the platform to get their breath.

  62. The wireless at Bray Park; the central station near Willesden, whence the reports were heliographed--it was an amazingly complete chain.

  63. He managed to get his fiery chum outside, and they hurried along, at the scout pace, running and walking alternately, toward the West Kensington station of the Underground Railway.

  64. The next station must be on this line somewhere," he said.

  65. For the third station they found was evidently hidden away in a private park.

  66. That's why they put their first station here.

  67. Sara telegraphed that she would come to Barrow Court the following day, and, on her arrival, found Tim waiting for her at the station in his two-seater.

  68. He reached a receiving station of ours and dumped his load there.

  69. They dashed madly through the roaring darkness, missed turned-over trucks and hunks of the bombed station by inches, and finally scrambled down under the bridge and into the cave-like hole blown out of one of the supporting walls.

  70. Your father will meet you at the station in London.

  71. As the cowboy came out of the Chinese restaurant, after having eaten supper, Jack Green, the station agent, hailed him.

  72. Left alone, Traynor wrote briefly to the wife of the Station Agent at Willcox.

  73. Ay, says Mrs. Peters, she would adorn any station in life.

  74. What proposals can one in your high station have to make to one in my low one!

  75. I wish, sir, replied Mr. Perry, all gentlemen in your station would act so.

  76. Whatever my new station may require of me, added I, I hope I shall always conduct myself in such a manner, that pride and insolence shall bear no part in my character.

  77. From one of the telegraph offices along the line the boys had sent word ahead, and at the station they found Jack Ness, the hired man, who had brought the family touring car.

  78. Sam, motioning to the station master, who was looking after some baggage.

  79. Dan Baxter led the way to the nearest elevated station and they ran upstairs to the platform and soon boarded a car bound for the vicinity of Prospect Park.

  80. All right, follow the railroad right to Ashton," answered the oldest Rover boy, naming the town that was the railroad station for Brill College.

  81. Dick hurried to the railroad station and a little later got a train that took him to the Grand Central Depot.

  82. At last the elevated train reached the proper station and Dick and Baxter alighted.

  83. It was the familiar cry of the brakeman of the train, as the cars rolled into the little station at which the Rover boys were to alight.

  84. Try for Spotstown," said Dick, naming another railroad station several miles further from his home.

  85. Then they fairly ran to the nearest station of the elevated railroad.

  86. Tom at once departed, to station himself at the window of one of the front bed chambers.

  87. At one station at which they stopped, a newsboy came through the train, crying his wares, and Dick purchased several metropolitan evening papers and handed them around.

  88. Last fall I felt as lonely as a shipwrecked mariner when I landed on the station platform at Overton.

  89. And if she had been on the station platform when the 11.

  90. It was easy enough, in such a station as Redfield, and I paid my fare at London.

  91. The station was Redfield, and Throckham was three miles beyond it.

  92. I think Plummer would naturally seize him on the spot, rush him off to the nearest station and go back with enough men to clear out No.

  93. Presently a fly hove in sight--the sort of dusty vehicle that plies at every rural railway station in this country; and as he caught sight of us in the road the driver began waving his whip in a very singular and excited manner.

  94. She could take this as far as the railway station; but that railway station was not to be the one just outside Rashleigh village, but another called Norton Paget, which was situated three miles farther down the line.

  95. Be here in time in the morning, for Mr John may want you to drive to the station early for him; there is no saying when he will be back.

  96. We will expect you this day fortnight, and I will come to the station in the spring-cart to meet you.

  97. As soon as ever the sound of the horse's hoofs which was conveying John Saxon to the railway station died away on the road, Annie, who had been crouching rather than lying down in her room, ran to the window and looked out.

  98. Then she would start on Tuesday from Victoria Station and arrive in Paris that night.

  99. The darkness had quite set in, and when she entered the tiny station and took a third-class ticket to London she was not recognised.

  100. They had been met at the railway station with the information that Mr Brooke was still alive, and Saxon uttered a sigh of relief.


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