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  • We can just make the 7.15 in time to catch the last boat-train to Paris

    princeofcairo: Things We Know About Paris So Far princeofcairo 2009

  • There was such a crowd of immigrant type West Indians on the boat-train platform at Waterloo that I was glad I was travelling first class to the West-Indies.

    The Lessons of the Master Buruma, Ian 2008

  • His journey is too important for the ordinary boat-train.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • I immediately requested a weekend leave, and took the boat-train to London.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • I immediately requested a weekend leave, and took the boat-train to London.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • It was after pulling off the first shoe against his feeble protest that I realized why he had taken the boat-train instead of a plane.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • Perhaps there'd be a bunch of shamrocks and a couple of tickets for the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire boat-train for good measure, too.

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

  • They had come through from Rangoon without a hitch, and had run into Charing Cross by the boat-train the day before.

    Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

  • Owing to a breakdown on the line the boat-train from Marseilles crawled into the Gare du Lyon a couple of hours late.

    The Shadow of the East

  • Waterloo Bridge and across the Strand, brought us to Euston just as the boat-train was timed to start.

    Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

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