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  • "Yer started your thrain too suddint, Mr. Ketchel, and pulled two ton of coal over my poor head," cried the fireman in half humorous indignation.

    Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt

  • "Tchkk!" he clucked in gentle distaste -- "In uniform ... an 'just afther comin' off the thrain! ... th 'like av that now 'tis -- 'tis scandh'lus! ..."

    The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

  • No wan hadn't seed um, an 'they clum aboord th' thrain, cursin 'an' swearin 'vingince on Creed phwin they caught um.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • Sthandin 'by the edge av the platform at the fore end, just as thrain came in, some onvisible murdherer gives me a stupenjus drive in the back, and over I wint on the line, mid-betwixt the rails.

    Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • Comin 'home at night, there was a juce av a crowd on the station platform, consekins of a late thrain.

    Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • I'll be there half an hour before the thrain starts.

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Islands, where it wasn't, an 'take th' thrain out here, an 'hur-rl death an' desthruction into me little store.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • A thrain that is goin 'to anny iv th' penal colonies where most men spind their vacations will stop at more places thin a boy on an errand.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'on'y place th' thrain don't stop is at Mudville-be-th'-Cannery.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Ahearn give her a solemn rayqueem high mass an 'a monument at Calv'ry that ye can see fr'm th' fun'ral thrain.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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