We walk a rail fence.

As to sending it, it is doubtful whether the rail-road companies would receive it as baggage.

When the colonies tried in 1895 to haul freight by ox-team from their rail-head at the frontier to Johannesburg President Kruger "closed the drifts" and almost precipitated a conflict in arms.

Boss and the madam had been reading the papers, when he broke out with the exclamation: "The very idea of electing an old rail splitter to the presidency of the United States!

How few penetrable regions can we now find where the rail-car is a novelty!

After that she heard nothing more of the Straying Angels, but only a wildly mysterious confabulation about "rock hogs," and "coyotes" that blew up whole mountains, and a hundred and one things about the "rail end."

In my flight I bumped into ventilators, stumbled over a hatch-coaming and pulled myself along the swaying rail-chains toward the bow of the vessel.

The rail shot is hit more effectually when you are fairly close, within three feet, of the side wall.

Rail-splitting did not achieve the results to which the ambition of young Lincoln aspired, so he contrived to go into the grocery business; but in this he was unsuccessful, owing to an inherent deficiency in business habits and aptitude.

So he counted the rail-lengths, watch in hand, with a curse to the count for his witlessness in failing to have Loring repeat the Boston message to him during the long wait at Juniberg; and when the time for the decision arrived he signaled the engineer to slow down, jumped from the step at the nearest crossing and hastened up the street toward the Court House.

" They put in their sweeps and, mounting the rail aft, clung to rigging, and shouted derision and defiance at their pursuers.

Maintenance reference book, article 6.1.3; type C guide rail lubricator.

You ridicule the idea of the abolition of slavery, because it would make the slaveholder "so poor, as to oblige him to take hold of the maul and wedge himselfhe must catch, curry, and saddle his own horsehe must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots)his wife must go herself to the wash-tubtake hold of the scrubbing broom, wash the pots, and cook all that she and her rail-mauler will eat."

" Ormsby knew the West by rail routes as one who travels much for time-killing purposes.

At the end of College Street we left the city behind us, struck the rail-track, forsook that presently for a desert sort of road known as Canal Street, and kept on in a northwesterly direction for half a mile farther.

The two principal ports having extensive facilities for shipping and rail-transportation to and from the Danubian provinces of the Dual Empire were Trieste and Fiume.

A stream of motor-lorriesone of the streams sprayed out from the rail-headwill halt at those trees and unload, and the stuff which they unload will disappear like a dream and an illusion.

This ratio has not been maintained, but the canal traffic now is much larger than the rail tonnage.

With hand jacks they lifted the girders and piled up sleepers, one by one beneath, until the girder was lifted to rail level again.

It scorns to "tread the primrose path of dalliance"it shrinks back from it as from a precipice, and keeps in the iron rail-way of the understanding.

One Chinaman slid down the ladder-rail whirling like an acrobat in the air before he landed, and another followed him, but they were the two last, and Buckrow and Long Jim started after them.

Our heavy guns were able to reach Metz and to interfere seriously with German rail movements.

Olaf will show us Herons in the island woods, and where the Rails nest in the reeds, near the Marsh Wrens, a mile or two up the river.

At Wool the rail parts company with the Dorchester turnpike and soon after leaves the valley of the Frome, traversing a sparsely populated district served by one small station in the ten miles to Dorchester, at Moreton.

We fired at the skirmishers behind the rail piles in fronttwo hundred yards.