Scribbling a hasty note or two — one putting off the business meeting, another to Knight apologizing for not being able to see him in the evening — paying his bill, and leaving his heavier luggage to follow him by goods-train, he jumped into a cab and rattled off to the Great Western Station. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So the lawyer, having to run on as far as Charteris by the goods-train, upon business, walked down to the station, where, having half-an-hour to wait, he fell into talk with the station-master, whom he also knew, and afterwards with Tom ❋ Unknown (2003)
Another tells us: -- "When Mr. BEGBIE put his question so great a stillness reigned throughout the crowded railway station that you could have heard a goods-train shunt." ❋ Various (N/A)
For godståg (= goods-train) he substitutes frakttåg (= freight-train). ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
My uncle told me that the engine-driver had failed to see a signal because of the fog, and our train had crashed into a goods-train. ❋ Unknown (1916)
A few things for remembrance were to be sent after them by goods-train: a few books, portraits, the old grandfather's clock, whose tick-tock seemed to them to be the beating of their hearts. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)
Here the Tuttle person had assembled a goods-train of a half-dozen animals, the luggage being adjusted to their backs by himself and two assistants, all using language of the most disgraceful character throughout the process. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
As they crossed the railway-bridge a goods-train ran underneath and puffed smoke into the mare's eyes. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
But this they could not do, for neither could the stove go by a passenger-train nor they themselves go in a goods-train. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Scribbling a hasty note or two -- one putting off the business meeting, another to Knight apologizing for not being able to see him in the evening -- paying his bill, and leaving his heavier luggage to follow him by goods-train, he jumped into a cab and rattled off to the Great ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
But this they could not do, for neither could the stove go by a passenger train nor they themselves go in a goods-train. ❋ Various (1880)
He was not disappointed; for, although the station wore its dreariest aspect, having only just begun to throb with a little spasmodic life, in the way of an early goods-train, Mr. Carter found his devoted follower prowling in melancholy loneliness amid a wilderness of empty carriages and smokeless engines, with the turnip whiteness of his complexion relieved by a red nose. ❋ Unknown (1875)
