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• To give no chance for warning, we waited until just after the train started up, and then we dropped off, on the far side, covering view of us until the train was again under headway We separated and I went ahead, across fields, until I was so far away as to apparently have no connection with my men, who were following; we had about three or four miles to go thus. —  Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
• The station-master, however, refused to do so, saying that the train was already late We will see about that,' retorted the other; and he actually went and sat down between the rails right in front of the engine The station-master dared not let the train start, and though he begged the nobleman to get up, the latter refused to move until his friend arrived. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• Just in front of the train was a roaring chasm from which the viaduct had been swept away. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• Just behind the train was the mangled frame of the girl who had warned the driver. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• And this wonderful sofa to help me Leila told me to tell you that she'd rush up for a minute before dinner, after everybody had arrived; but the train is always dreadfully late. —  Autres Temps... 1916

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