Sentence examples for endless railway from inspiring English sources

A pompous old goat out of Dickens or Molière, the Chancellor grew even grander when his post was abolished in 1846 and he could begin earning fat attorney's fees from an endless railway patent case.

The disposable books were never meant to preserve the past for future savoring, only to keep track of Dickens's busy present and immediate future, especially his endless railway travel between his mistress, Ellen Ternan, and the far-flung platforms on which he gave dramatic public readings from his work.

Also commonly referred to as Llanfair PG, it is recognised across the world for its full, 58-character spelling, and apparently endless railway station sign.

The most tantalizing human conveyor of all was the "Endless Traveling or Railway Sidewalk," an elevated loop proposed in 1873 by the inventor Alfred Speer for operation on lower Broadway.

Spread out before me were smoking chimneys, an endless framework of railway tracks, the steelworks' own docks, vast buildings and beside them scuttling figures.

But without crossings, the railway becomes an endless barrier dividing communities, with people finding themselves literally on the wrong side of the tracks.

Unlike the Stammlager, to which tour groups throng in the summer months, Birkenau, with its empty railway track, its endless lines of barbed-wire fencing, its mouldering wooden barracks, its mined crematoriums, and its seemingly boundless vista of crumbling brick chimneys, lies virtually empty.

Railway stations, meanwhile, became mob scenes, endless lines forming before ticket machines that took forever to work or too frequently didn't.

And there are endless, luxuriously slow-panning shots of impossibly solemn railway staff, the camera lingering on their 19th-century scowls in a way that hints tantalisingly at stiff britches and clandestine bowler-on-bowler sessions behind The Dog And Repression.

The endless cycle of new stadiums, new roads, new railways, new infrastructure might give the hosts a (much-disputed) Keynesian rationale for spending money on a World Cup.

The terrible stalemate on the Western front, which lasted three and a half years, was a result of the fact that both supplies had access to almost endless supplies of both ammunition and food from their railways behind the lines.