Trains

Examples

• By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Confederates were surprised to find our cavalry had possession of the trains. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Rear guards were not necessary for him, and having always a railroad at his back, large wagon trains were not required. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Suitable directions will at once be given for all trains and surplus artillery to conform to this movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My object in having them sent to Belle Plain was to use them as an escort to our supply trains. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The wagon trains should be kept well east of the troops, and if a crossing can be found, or made lower down than Jones's they should take it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Empty trains were obliged to leave the road free for loaded ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our trains arrived a few days later, after which we were all perfectly equipped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The deflection of the tubes in the centre amounted to only three-quarters of an inch in each cell; it being rather less when the trains were at full speed than when stationary. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In this way he came very near succeeding in getting to his provision trains and eluding us with at least part of his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman's force made an additional army, with cavalry, artillery, and trains, all to be supplied by the single track road from Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have seen Forbes, and I have seen your uncle, and I have set one or two trains of inquiry upon foot which may lead to something. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The accustomed places brought back the accustomed habits and trains of thought. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• McPherson was hastening up to join Hovey, but was embarrassed by Hovey's trains occupying the roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Second, he would draw the enemy's cavalry after him, and thus better protect our flanks, rear and trains than by remaining with the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The withdrawal of Hancock from the right uncovered one road from Spottsylvania to Fredericksburg over which trains drew our supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The cavalry and the wagon trains were to march, but all the troops that could be transported by the cars were to go in that way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It occupied much of the road in marching, and taxed the trains in bringing up forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Third, his absence would save the trains drawing his forage and other supplies from Fredericksburg, which had now become our base. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sheridan's wagon trains were kept at Harper's Ferry, where all of his stores were. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This was in reality the first example of railroad trains moved by telegraph signals, a practice now so common and universal as to attract no comment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This stoppage of Lee's column no doubt saved to us the trains following. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Iron girder bridges were also constructed, and thus the railway trains were carried across roads and narrow rivers at any required inclination, supported on flat beams of iron. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Sherman was now obliged to halt for the purpose of bringing up his railroad trains. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The comfort of passengers and the safety of freight have also been greatly increased by the invention of _Buffers_ on railroad cars and trains to prevent sudden and violent concussion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By half-past seven I was on the road and proceeded rapidly to the front, ordering all trains that were in front of troops off the road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mrs. Snagsby silently lays trains of gunpowder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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