It is situated near a railway-line and the compound comprises one fairly large concrete barrack formerly used by civilian workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He is not like a sane man walking along a road; he is like a repentant suicide trying to crawl off a railway-line. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The only good news that came in about it was the recent rejection by the National Board for Wildlife of a proposal to further fragment the Park by laying a railway-line through it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Bankers are watching the state-owned railway-line builder's offering with keen interest, as the success of the share sale -- in which its Hong Kong IPO comes shortly after the Shanghai one -- may well become the model for future dual listings. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There is also a huge, rusty water-main pipe which runs through the forest at ground level, and has cracked so that the water spills out and flows around the pipe neither the railway-line nor the water conduit exist in the real world. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Again the sense came to her of a ship padding softly through the waves; of a train swinging from side to side down a railway-line. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The completion of the railway-line to Melbourne was the outstanding event. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Our idea was to advance suddenly from El Jefer, to cross the railway-line and to crown the great pass — Nagb el ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
You have to cross the river and the railway-line to get there. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1977)
Laura did not like to mention the secretive borrowing of her car, but she refused an invitation to stay to lunch on the plea that she must be getting along, and, passing through Tigh-Osda, she followed the railway-line until it branched off to skirt Loch Carron, while she herself followed the road which led to the ferry. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1977)
However, they crawled safely over and then had to negotiate a level crossing of the branch railway-line before they arrived at the house. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1977)
This is the reason why a train can be heard coming if the ear is put to the railway-line, when no indication of its approach is given to the ear by the atmosphere. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)
They would rather get into the firing-line than go to the railway-line. ❋ P. H. Kritzinger (N/A)
The destruction of the railway-line afforded us much fun. ❋ P. H. Kritzinger (N/A)
They were walking on the level now, on a path beside the railway-line, again in the great green platter of the marshes. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
The distance from Obdorsk to the railway-line was fifteen hundred versts, and to the nearest telegraph-station eight hundred. ❋ Trotsky, Leon (1930)
When the enemy approached the Delagoa railway-line, President Steyn left with his escort for Hectorspruit. ❋ Dietlof Van Warmelo (1919)
For instance: on the railway-line from Jaffa to Jerusalem the train stops at a station beside which stands the tomb of a holy man. ❋ Lothrop Stoddard (1916)
Gazelles were often seen by pickets, and used to break across the railway-line, to water at the river. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
