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Mr. Francis said his first drafts saw him experimenting with literal references, such as trainlike rhythmic chugging to evoke the rail tracks that run through the park, or industrial-sounding brake drums.

Turning the City Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

She slowed down from this trainlike speed, stopped, picked up a mooring, made fast.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Through the open window sounded in their ears the trainlike grinding of the sea at the foot of the cliffs.

A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910

Deploying mechanical, trainlike imagery throughout, Mr. Wheeldon seems in part to be playing with a particular ambivalence toward progress that has its roots in the industrial era.

NYT > Home Page By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO 2012

Cindy Stockett's penchant for tidy formality is on display in a string of little boxwoods chugging trainlike across the lawn.

The Seattle Times 2009

For example, Rubin explains, while Johnnie Temple’s “Lead Pencil Blues” was the first recorded example of the “cut boogie pattern” — the chugging, trainlike guitar line that’s a staple of basic rock ’n’ roll — it’s Johnson’s harder, more propulsive version, found, for example, on “Sweet Home Chicago,” that other guitarists began to adopt, from Elmore James to Chuck Berry and beyond.

Searching for Robert Johnson DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

"Caleb Stine and the Brakemen, an Americana ensemble out of Baltimore, play music that is appropriately trainlike Join birder Karen Harris on walks through the Arboretum's rich landscape of woods, meadows, streams, and wetland to discover its diverse bird population.

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