Possibly this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant.

Dr. Russell, who was with him when going to attend the tercentenary of Dublin College, tells the story how Sir Andrew not only read but wrote hour after hour in the railway carriage, and, in addition, listened to the conversation.

Railway lines.

She produced a drum, a trumpet, and a mechanical railway train. '

Another convoy spent four days on the railway journey and were only fed once, and were beaten with sticks and fists and with knife handles."

Does it not strike wonder to think how some men have under them, either in their industrial plant, or in their railway systems, or in their syndicate-work, anywhere from a few hundred to ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand men?

He mentioned these things merely to show that railway companies had no right to starve cattle.

By and by a railway bridge was thrown over the Canal, and when the war was over through trains could be run from Cairo to Jerusalem and Haifa.

The doubling of the railway track went on apace.

My best botanical stroll was along one of the railroads (Sanford is a "railway centre," so called), through a dreary sand waste.

More than a hundred of these guns are said to have been prepared for shipping to France, and their range and power would probably have astonished the Germans, as did the great naval guns, mounted on railway cars and manned by American seamen, that did such effective work in the closing days of the conflict.

Meanwhile our train had gone on to Mestre, owing to a mistake between two railway officials, and had to return next day.

Because of a railway accident fifteen years before in which one of his legs was cut off just below the knee, he had retired from public office.

As he took his railway ticket, his look was so haggard and painful that the clerk asked him whether he were ill.

On the left of the infantry the Yeomanry Mounted Division was moving forward from Akir and Mansura, and after the 22nd Mounted Brigade had taken Naaneh they detailed a demolition party to blow up one mile of railway, so that, even if the 75th Division had not taken Junction Station, Jerusalem would have been entirely cut off from railway communication with the Turkish base at Tul Keram, and Haifa and Damascus.

As we passed the railway embankment at Rubbia, we saw and spoke to some Italian machine-gunners in position, whose orders were to hold up the enemy till the last possible moment.

In a school situated in S.E. London in the midst of rows of monotonous little houses, and close to a busy railway junction, a miracle was performed: the playground was not very large, and of the usual uncompromising concrete.

There is plenty of discontent and unrest among the State-employed railway men and munition workers.

Take, as an example of this, his railway-building.

One of the shipsthe Raglan, I believetaking a signal from a seaplane, got a direct hit on an ammunition train at Beit Hanun, the railway terminus north of Gaza.

increase in railway fares.

" The taxi-cab took her to a bookstall in the Strand, where she got out and purchased a railway guide.

The latter were no light weight to lug along, and by the time I had covered the half-mile of marsh that separated me from the hut I had come to the conclusion that the profession of a railway porter was one that I should never adopt as a private hobby.

Forced to surrender immediately a large quantity of live stock, to demobilize when the best part of her railway material had gone, still hampered by the blockade, Germany, against the interest of the Allies themselves, has been obliged to sacrifice her exchange because, in the absence of sufficient help, she has had to buy the most indispensable foodstuffs in neutral countries.

From a mill-owner he grew to coal- owner, shipowner, banker, railway director, money-lender to kings and princes; and last of all, as the summit of his own and his compeer's ambition, to land-owner.