" He stopped, and his gaze wandered round the hushed court till it rested on the prisoner, who with his hands grasping the rail of the dock had leaned forward in order to catch every word.

" I saw her clasping fingers convulsively grip the rail, and, even at that distance, marked a sudden flame of color in her cheeks.

"Thee would'st not set John at that!" "Lincoln split rails," said John with a smile, "why should not I pile them?

Not far off a high, wooden trestle carried the rails across a ravine.

Before he had taken down the fence-rail and turned into the path which led to his back door, he was straining his ears for the sound of Blossy's voice gossiping with Angy.

A girl came out of the other car and seizing the rails looked down.

A sudden leap of the boat caused her to clutch the rail, and instantly Sanchez was at her side, proffering assistance.

In ten days we had opened up this old deviation, laid new rails, and had the line re-opened.

Then, instantly, on top of it, came the rousing hail: "Man overboardastern!" Farley and Hallam were the first to reach the rail.

In the meantime Old Joe was thinking, not boasting, but was riding the rail.

I have run off the rails, and stuck all night in snowdrifts, and sat behind females that would have the window open when one could not wink without his eyelids freezing together.

He noticed, too, that his arm holding the stair-rail trembled in a silly way, whereas he was perfectly calm.

The line had sunk in the afternoon and it was necessary to lift the rails and fill up the subsidence before the next gravel train arrived.

"Because that fellow leaped the rail from the wharf.

This man is to mount guard with a beam, which he is to throw across the rails at the arrival of each train, so as to cause it to run off the rails, if the engine-driver refuses to stop.

Men left the rail and disappeared from the view of the spectators as they hurried to perform their duties.

She stood, both hands clasping the rail, watching us intently.

" "And we found a broken rail, and told a flagman and he said the train might have been wrecked," remarked Amy.

He ran toward the brook, crossed the rail in safety, and instantly turned it over, so that his pursuer would step upon it when the cut side was downward.

On the cruiser's quarter-deck the officers lined the starboard rail.

At that moment the yell started among the midshipmen nearer the rail.

The box struck the wooden rail.

Without hesitation, and as though it were the most natural thing in the world, I vaulted the rail to cast myself into the ocean.

Much method but little intelligence was shown in the destruction of the railway lines; for they often failed to remove the points, contenting themselves with removing the rails and hiding them in the jungle.

SEE Gilfillan, Archer B. DEAN, GRAHAM M. Gleaming rails.