93 examples of brakeman in sentences

He said when he was a young man he and a railroad brakeman got busted at Topeka, and they had an order book printed, and went all over Kansas taking orders for Osier willows, which they warranted to grow so high in two years they would make fences for the farms that no animals or blizzards could get over or through, and make shade for the houses and the whole farm.

When the pussy willow cuttings died in their tracks, or grew up just plain pussy willows that never got high enough to hide a jack rabbit, the farmers of Kansas loaded their guns and waited for pa and the brakeman to come back to Kansas, but they never went back.

The brakeman became president of a great railroad, but when he has to go across the continent in his special car, he dodges Kansas, and goes across by the northern or southern route.

Now if you'd been a brakeman on a Chicago train, as I was a few years ago, and seen the animals run in for the stock yards, you might talk about cruelty.

The brakeman . . . . . . . .

Draxy turned to a brakeman who had drawn near.

This is so because the lower jaw is anatomically loose; and when it is struck heavily, it turns and jars the brain, and the man who is struck feels as though the man who struck him had opened the top of his skull and taken his brains in his hand and wrenched them as a brakeman wrenches a brake.

The little den behind the drawing-room had but one occupant besides the rear-end brakeman-a tall, saturnine man in a gray grass-cloth duster who was smoking a Porto Rican stogie.

" The pretty young woman was just about to ask who Foster was, when the speed of the train slackened, and the brakeman opened the door of the car and cried out in stentorian tones: "Pawnee Junction; twenty minutes for refreshments!"

" "Ebenezer!" yelled the brakeman.

"Don't you remember, when I was telling her fortune there in the train, I told her that the light-haired man had already come into her life, and she made fun of me and said it must have been the Swede brakeman?

The fugitive, assuming correctly that it was slowing down for search, was seen by a brakeman fleeing across a pasture between the tracks and the eastern edge of Haystack Mountain.

When a man travels across Arizona in a Pullman car, we do not think of him as having performed a feat bearing even the most remote resemblance to the feats of the first explorers of those waterless wastes; whatever admiration we feel in connection with his trip is reserved for the traffic-superintendent, engineer, fireman, and brakeman.

The brakeman's daughter.

Each year she sent a box of candy to each conductor and brakeman on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, "Because," she said, "they never let me lift out my bundles, but catch them up so quickly, and they all seem to know me.

A brakeman of flashy attire, with fine leather showing to the knees, strolled off and up the platform on high heels, haughty as a prince.

He waved it four times from side to side like a brakeman and in a short time a steady "put-put!" told the watchers that a motor boat was approaching.

A brakeman who didn't know him by sight sat complacently on the top of the car.

"The brakeman surveyed the tempestuous little man from head to foot.

He told the brakeman in the caboose to go up and put the man off at the next stop.

When the brakeman approached the tramp, the latter waved a big revolver and told him to keep away.

the conductor asked the brakeman, when the train was under motion again.

After the train had made another stop and gone on, the brakeman came into the caboose and said to the conductor: "Well, is he off?"

" A conductor and a brakeman on a Montana railroad differ as to the proper pronunciation of the name Eurelia.

And then from the brakeman at the other end of the car: "You really are!

93 examples of  brakeman  in sentences