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  • It is situated near a railway-line and the compound comprises one fairly large concrete barrack formerly used by civilian workers.

    Work Camp 1025 GW 2010

  • The only good news that came in about it was the recent rejection by the National Board for Wildlife of a proposal to further fragment the Park by laying a railway-line through it.

    India's vanishing tigers 2008

  • He is not like a sane man walking along a road; he is like a repentant suicide trying to crawl off a railway-line.

    G.K.'s Weekly - The Plea of Petrol 2008

  • Bankers are watching the state-owned railway-line builder's offering with keen interest, as the success of the share sale -- in which its Hong Kong IPO comes shortly after the Shanghai one -- may well become the model for future dual listings.

    Dual Listings Are on Track 2007

  • There is also a huge, rusty water-main pipe which runs through the forest at ground level, and has cracked so that the water spills out and flows around the pipe neither the railway-line nor the water conduit exist in the real world.

    ollie, the boobie-tree, water from a pipe, a train, wasps, water from a pond 2005

  • There is also a huge, rusty water-main pipe which runs through the forest at ground level, and has cracked so that the water spills out and flows around the pipe neither the railway-line nor the water conduit exist in the real world.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Again the sense came to her of a ship padding softly through the waves; of a train swinging from side to side down a railway-line.

    The Years 2004

  • The completion of the railway-line to Melbourne was the outstanding event.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Our idea was to advance suddenly from El Jefer, to cross the railway-line and to crown the great pass — Nagb el

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • You have to cross the river and the railway-line to get there.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

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