locomotive

• Behind her an alien is moving down the corridor like a locomotive, a graceful skeleton shape as lethal and inhuman as you can imagine. —  Fail-Safe, &c.
• Inside it had low light and scarred wooden walls and a dented chrome machine as hot and long as a locomotive, and a counter. —  The Hard War
• The vital thing about the locomotive is the builder's idea or plan, which he derived, in turn, from the inventor. —  A Librarian's Open Shelf
• The blowing of the whistle and the ringing of the bell on the locomotive was the music of their first, second, or third honeymoon journey. " —  My Memories of Eighty Years
• One of the principal practical objections to this locomotive was the enormous quantity of coke consumed or wasted by it — about 692 lbs. per hour when travelling — caused by the sharpness of the steam-blast in the chimney, which blew a large proportion of the burning coke into the air. —  Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

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