She had to take a tram to the Waterstoke terminus, then change on to a light electric railway that ran along the roadside for seven miles to Wynch-on-the-Wold.
Creake has everything in his favour, but it is just within possibility that the driver of an inopportune tram might notice the appendage.
The weapon which he has planned to use--scarcely less powerful than lightning but much more tractable--is the high voltage current of electricity that flows along the tram wire at his gate.
Round the bend an approaching tram clanged its bell noisily, and, quickened by the warning sound, Mr Creake again appeared, this time with a small portmanteau in his hand.
Although the house is lonely it is on the electric tram route.
A tram was waiting, bound in a southerly direction, where the centre of the city lay.
I left the tram at Unter den Linden and walked down some side streets until I came across a quiet-looking café.
Illustrations of the Origin and Progress of Rail and Tram Roads" (1824).
There are numerous tram roads connected with the canal between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydvil, in Glamorganshire.
In the late afternoon I took tram for Leith, changing of course at Pilrig, because Leith remains haughtily aloof from Edinburgh and emphasizes it through this break at the boundary.
The conductor of the tram looked, yes, and laughed.
I had interrupted their quiet Sabbath; it can still be quiet in Edinburgh notwithstanding that a tram car carried me on my way hither.
You must do as the Romans do--walk slowly and use the tram whenever possible.
I soon gave it up in favour of the steam-tram to Cammaiore which deposits you at a station whose name I forget, whence you may ascend to Corsanico through a village called, I think, Momio.
The tram for which she had been waiting passed by; she no longer cared to go out into the country.
Before their departure the art student was away for a few days, and, to relieve the dreariness of an existence which was becoming burdensome, Alma went out alone one afternoon, purposing a trip by steam-tram to the gardens at Nymphenburg.
She walked to the Stiglmeyerplatz, where the tram starts, and there stood waiting.
We made for hertram together--and tram after tram was full.
Ever the first formerly to propose trudging a long distance to save a tram fare, she was now fatigued after an hour's stroll.
He forgot where he was till the warning snort of a steam tram made him jump aside and miss the wheels of a bus from the opposite direction by the skin of his teeth.
She explained that from a child she had been unable to endure the touch of another person; that she always preferred to walk rather than ride in a crowded bus or tram because bodily contact with others set her nerves on edge.
That'll leave you nothing to pay your tram fare home.
Chook and Pinkey reached the markets by the first workman's tram in the morning.
They took a tram to the Haymarket, as they were afraid of being recognized in the Waterloo cars, and reached Regent Street after eleven.
He watched each tram as it stopped, looking for one face and figure among the moving crowd, for he had learned to know her walk in the distance while her features were a blur.
He did not know what to decide and yet he had to make up his mind while his tram was going along the Dennenweg, for Ernst lived in the Nieuwe Uitleg.
A long contemplative walk brought me back to Rondebosch, and again I took the train-like tram and went back to busy Capetown.
At the Castle the electric tram passed me, and I jumped on board and went, at the least, as fast as an English slow train.
The tram ran through and beyond it, and I got off and walked for a while among the side roads.
This tram road beside us will be a triumph of design.
But in Utopia a man who designs a tram road will be a cultivated man, an artist craftsman; he will strive, as a good writer, or a painter strives, to achieve the simplicity of perfection.
Then they boarded a tram and journeyed out of the city, among miles of beautiful houses, and, getting down at the terminus, walked briskly for an hour, since it would be long before there would be any land for them to walk on again.
She set off happily towards the main street where the tram lines ran, feeling that short cuts were not for strangers in a big city.
Presently, with hee-hawing of its donkey-horn, the tram swerved into the avenue again.
There were no tram fares or train fares or walking time allowed for the likes of them.
We very gladly accepted the invitation, and a little later we all got out of the tram and went to a hotel by the sea.
Baker and I were among the lucky ones, and we went off together and took the tram into Durban.
I want to get a tram to the Hauptbahnhof," sobbed the little governess.
She ran, ran down the street until she found a broad road with tram lines and a policeman standing in the middle like a clockwork doll.
While the tram swung and jangled through a world full of old men with twitching knees.
The steam-tram journeys are always interesting; and my advice to a traveller in Holland is to make as much use of them as he can.
The steam-tram to Monnickendam runs on to Edam, whence one may command both Volegdam and Purmerend.
To stand on the steam-tram footboard is one very good way to see Holland.
I like them at all times; but best perhaps when one has to wait in the heart of some quiet village for the other tram to come up.
A steam-tram carries people thither many times a day.
I found the town distracting under the incessant clanging of the tram bell (yet grass grows among the paving-stones between the rails); but there is no distraction opposite the sunset.
But Holland exists for the State, and such an idea as the depreciation or ruin of property by running a tram line over it has never suggested itself.
Every tramsooner or later reaches the Dam: that is another simplifying piece of information.
In hot weather the steam-tram is the better way, for then one can go direct to the baths and bathe in the stillest arm of the sea that I know.
From the Curhaus it is better to return to the Hague by electric tram along the new road.
In the returning steam-tram from Tholen to Bergen-op-Zoom was a Dutch maiden.
Pelle took the tram in order to get there quickly, but he had no great hopes of getting the place.
It's not so far from the tram after all, and we get it for three hundred krones (£16 10s.
You were on thetram this morning when Miss Brewster was insulted, weren't you?
Now she only inquired lightly: "Is that why you ran away from the tram car yesterday?
It was the terminus of the tram-line, and I purposed to tram there first and then to start out on my country walk.
The tram duly reached 'Simplex', and the conductor was unfeignedly relieved to see me alight.
He motioned for the men to shut off the drills; then, climbing up on the crumbling ore that was being shoveled into the tram cars, he held his candle up to the peak of the dome-like drift.
He is as crooked as the tram road on the sixteenth level in the Red Rock Mine.
A good-natured tram conductor allowed them to load their burden on an end of his car.
The Master and the Disciple returned in the tram as far as Gray's Inn.
The only objection that the Chairman had to urge against granting the tram was that the Company had an English name, and that with so many Dutch ones available.
