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  • She knew where things were, she could locate the art books, the books in French and in Spanish, Nietzche, Jane Austin, the guilty pleasures, the Ireland travel guides, the mysteries… She took Rebecca to the teen section and started running her index finger along the train-tracks of the spines.

    The Carnegie Kait Em Bird 2011

  • Alien ribs curling over piles of stone and train-tracks, rife with magic, insect headed women and talking cacti?

    Fantastic Settings marycatelli 2010

  • Another time a person is walking down train-tracks and sees a man face down in a pool of water, intestines sucked out of his ass from the explosion.

    Celebrities Who Are Actually Somewhat Smart 2009

  • His only thought while approaching the narrow - gauge train-tracks which crossed the path-they were little more than toy tracks, really - was of the gunslinger saying that ka was like a wheel, always rolling around to the same place again.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • It was so wide that it could have taken two train-tracks.

    The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973

  • Boyle exults in a scene depicting how laundry gets dried in India: the clothes are secured with stones in the spaces between train-tracks, where the warm air thrown up by the trains dries them in five minutes, with the laundry-collectors risking death most of the day.

    The Play Ethic 2009

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