Where the toy train with its old-fashioned locomotive is crawling out of the tunnel under the Mound, and where the old Waverley Station is seen, alterations have been plenty.
The first passenger train ran a spirited race with the coach over the twelve miles’ course, steam winning by a hundred and twenty yards, amid the cheers of excited crowds.
Colonel Crop was an excellent travelling companion, for he never disturbed the train of his fellow-traveller's thoughts by any impertinent prating.
Just then a munition train consisting of three wagons came up to carry ammunition to the battery.
So I had to change, and got on a trainthat went to Saarbruecken.
At the station we got into a train made up of second and third-class coaches.
The crew of our train were men of the Prusso-Hessian state railroads.
The train moved slowly through the beautiful autumnal landscape, and for the first time we got an insight into the life behind the front.
The train moved slowly down the Rhine, it went along without any great shaking, and some of us were seized by a worn-out feeling after those days of great excitement.
We had entered a train that had been kept ready, and had made ourselves comfortable in our cattle-trucks.
At last, after long, infinitely long hours the train came to a stop.
We had to change trains at Vouzieres, and took the train to Diedenhofen.
Whenever thetrain stopped those older men treated us liberally to coffee, bread, and fruit.
Writing and literature, religion and mythology, history and science, all these were brought to the peoples of Canaan in the train of Babylonian conquest and trade.
Partly by land, partly by sea, they made their way through Phoenicia and the land of the Hittites, destroying everything as they went, and carrying in their train the subjugated princes of Naharaim and Kadesh.
Everything in the house had been sold, and one fine day Black got into the train with a small portmanteau, and went, nobody knew where.
The misdemeanours of Mr. Robert Nixon brought in their train consequences strange beyond imagination.
Nay, would you win the kinsmen Nature sends Made ready to your hand, and keep them friends, 'Twere but lost labour, as if one should train A donkey for the course by bit and rein.
Had Rome no poets, who would teach the train Of maids and spotless youths their ritual strain?
But the thought which organizes the fresh advance goes with the pioneer-train that bridges streams, that mines the hill, that feels the country.
He did not put to himself the sort of questions which open in a train to our minds from any one observed fact, else he would have found himself asking after the special Providence which allowed the spider to fall into the porridge.
He has himself furnished us an analysis of the train of representations and arguments of which this protracted and many-jointed oration was made up.
The natural outcome of this undefined restlessness was dissatisfaction; and when dissatisfaction brought in its train the inevitable reaction against falseness and immorality, Marguerite d'Angoulême stood at the head of the movement.
Our train thereafter comes to a stop for we have reached Venice and enter a magnificent station, built of stone, with high semi-circular roof, lofty waiting rooms, mosaic floors.
Sicily is reached in a night by steamer from Naples to Palermo, or the tourist may go by train from Naples to Reggio, and thence by ferry across the strait to Messina.
Nothing will point this contrast better, perhaps, than the mere fact that the Michigan Central, which had only reached Ann Arbor a year or so before, was running one train a day between Detroit and Dexter.
Many were of course held in America, to their disgust, to train the new levies under the draft law, while others were assigned particular duties for which their special training had fitted them.
A white ribbon of snow passed him with almost express train speed; he saw a kaleidoscopic sea of faces, crazily distorted as he shot downward; heard the excited murmur of the crowd which broke into a wild "Ah!
Well, we're on our way up the hill again, talking and joshing, when the wind brings us the three long toots of the night train as it's coming into town and somehow it makes us all think of a certain party.
Obadiah's teeth were making a sound like a freight train clattering over a cattle guard at a railroad crossing.
And then who wouldtrain the Jamie Todds to give a reason of the faith that was in them before minister and elder?
Is it thus that you train your elder scholars to speak to their spiritual advisers, Dominie Grier?
He shook his fist at the town as the train moved out.
As Sir Gregory Jeffray walked from the late train which set him down at the station, he felt curiously at peace.
Only a short, friendly note it had been, but sufficient to cause Cleek to spend his day at the station, not knowing by which train she would arrive.
Suddenly he switched on his heel, a new train of thought aroused by the sight of some white powdery atoms that lay at his feet.
If she don't come by the next train I shall be redooced to eating of me bloomin' 'at to save me life!
As to the treatment and the agents governing it, we recognize in every drunkard general debility and conditions of nerve and brain exhaustion, and a certain train of exciting causes which always end in drinking.
I would train women to wash, repair, and replace in part, and to carry in their pockets little vials of white or red lead to fill the gaping holes.
Accordingly, on Friday a large delegation took the train to that city.
Many people bring into a new movement the whole intensity and unreason of their personal desires and discontents, and the train of progress must carry all this luggage along with it.
This trip cost Mr. Train $2,500, as he paid all the expenses, advertising largely.
Sunday night we left Chicago for St. Louis in the palace cars, where we slept as comfortably as in our own home and breakfasted on the train in the morning.
In Leavenworth Mr. Train spoke for two hours in Laing's Hall, and then took the evening train for Atchison.
Mr. TRAIN continued: Twelve o'clock at night is a late hour to take up all your points, General; but the audience will have me talk.
Leaving at noon they would have to wait for the nighttrain running along the Nile, and as I do not permit Nell to ride at night, they would leave this morning and will be here immediately after sunset.
But the station-master before that time had returned home as no other trainarrived that day at Gharak.
Elfreda shut me up in that same third-story chamber with my breakfast and left me to pine while she went gayly gallivanting down to the train to meet you.
She would take the noon train which would reach New York at nine o'clock that evening, provided her Fairy Godmother should decide not to go to the wedding.
I sent your telegram to Mr. Mackenzie, then caught the first train for Oakdale.
They had planned to depart for Overton on the nine o'clock train the next morning, little dreaming of the remarkable upheaval that was soon to take place in their plans.
Following at his heels, Jean used one hand to train his light on the bar.
Everett and I are to be married on Friday evening at eight o'clock, then take a nighttrain for California.
I'll catch the next train for New York and arrange my business to-morrow morning.
If we hadn't met on the train that day in that way, you might have decided to go to another boarding place instead of taking up with Mrs. Elwood's offer to you to share Miriam's room.
Lady Ryehampton came to tea at Colet House; she paid a last gloating visit to the cats' home, wrote a check for ten pounds payable to the Terror, and in a state of the liveliest satisfaction, took the train to London.
The archduke, lying back at his ease in the car, and smoking an excellent cigar, spoke with assurance of catching the one-fifteen train from Rowington to London and the night boat from Dover to Calais.
Mawley had come to the Grange in the train of the Princess Elizabeth; and since he found the Deeping air uncommonly bracing, he had permitted Sir James to keep him on at the Grange after her return to Cassel-Nassau.
He crawled out of the clump on the farther side, and proceeded to lay a train of raisins down the ditch of the hedge to the wood.
It had not brought in its train that extraordinary material prosperity and intellectual development at which men wondered in the Netherlands, and to which allusion has just been made.
The huge electric placards over London had winked out the facts in Esperanto as Oliver stepped into the train at twilight.
III Oliver was in a panic of terror as his mother, half an hour later, ran in with the news that one of the Government volors had fallen in the station square at Brighton just after the 14-1/2 train had discharged its passengers.
The train stopped, and her uncle came to the door, looking inquiringly at her.
However, as soon as Primrose had said grace, Lady Merrifield proposed to take Miss Hacket down to the stable-yard; and the whole train followed excepting the two girls, who trusted Hal to see whether their pets would suffer inconvenience.
At last the train swept up, and he was hurrying to find places for the ladies, when there was a moment's glimpse of a handsome moustached face at a smoking-carriage window.
Here the train started, and conversation in undertones became impossible, more especially as two of the farmers in the carriage were coming back from the Smithfield Cattle Show, and were discussing the prize oxen with all their might.
Most of their fellow passengers had got out at previous stations, so that Constance was able to open the door and jump out so perilously before the train had quite stopped, that a porter caught her with a sharp word of reproof.
They went on again, and when the train reached Silverton, Dolly was dreaming that her father had come, and that he said Uncle Alfred should be hanged unless she found the money for Professor Muhlwasser.
Or perhaps it is a long train of servants that makes thee happy?
Moreover, thou must for a time dispense with the pleasures of music and song, if so be that thou findest any delight therein, whilst I weave together the connected train of reasons in proper order.
He will laugh and be glad, and the first moon that shines on my grave will light the marriage train to the altar.
Mrs. Carrington observed it, and resolved to follow up the train of thought which she saw was awakened in his mind.
Wherever she went she was followed by a train of admirers, who had little thought that that soft smile and beautiful face concealed a heart as hard as the flinty rock.
Faster and faster sped the train on its pathway over streamlet and valley, meadow and woodland, until at last the Queen City, with its numerous spires, was left far behind.
The next morning when the last rumbling sound of the eastern train died away in the streets of Geneva, Nellie Ashton sat weeping in her little room at the seminary.
I took the evening train at Bailleul and spent an agreeable evening with Ker Seymer, the train officer.
It was gradually borne in on us that we were going to be moved off by train to take part in a different theatre of the fighting altogether; but where we should find ourselves we had not the least idea.
The French entraining orders are that all troops have to be at the station four blessed hours before the train starts, so as to give time to load up properly.
He had had a trying time, having been deposited by his train at a station about ten miles off, and having to make his way across country (riding) without a map and with very vague ideas of where he was to go.
Having to cross the railway line also delayed us still more, as a long supply-train was shunting and reshunting and keeping the gates shut.
The last train for London had already left, but he would walk to Cullerne Road Station and catch the night-mail from thence.
His misgivings and tergiversations had so much delayed him by the way, that it was past midnight, and the train was already due.
It may mean very serious mischief, and I have made up my mind to go up to London by the last train to-night.
I have no wish to hurry you, Mr Westray," he said, "but your train leaves Lytchett in little over an hour.
I wrote one by this same train a month ago, and before that I don't think we have ever sold one since the station was opened.
You can catch the trainat Lytchett, and be in Cullerne by mid-day.
He could not have come from Fording, for from Fording he would certainly have taken the train at Lytchett.
Well, I wrote a ticket for his lordship by this very train not a month ago; no, it was not a month ago, for 'twas the very night the poor organist at Cullerne was took.
He had been under the impression that Lord Blandamer had left Cullerne early on the night of poor Sharnall's accident; Lord Blandamer had told them at Bellevue Lodge that he was going away by the afternoon train when he left them.
Thank you very much," said he; "I should be very glad to rest a few minutes before my train leaves.
He had named the last train available for London, and Lord Blandamer saw that his visitor had so arranged matters, that the interview could not be prolonged for more than an hour.
