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There before them on the lonely desert, partly buried in the drifting sand, stood the remnant of a trolley-car.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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All our search at ranch up to now hasty and breathless, like man pursuing trolley-car.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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They said good-bye, and left the lonely old man standing by the trolley-car there on the barren desert.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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That evening as she took notes during the lectures Eilis was struggling so hard to stay awake that she put no thought into what she would find when she returned to Mrs. Kehoes and, when walking home from the trolley-car, decided she did not care what her new room was like as long as it was warm and had a bed where she could sleep.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Even though he spoke as if nothing had happened between them on the previous Friday night, Eilis knew that this funny fast talk of his, as story followed story while they walked to the trolley-car, was unusual for a Thursday night and was partly a way of pretending that there had been no problem then and that there was none now.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Every Thursday, Tony stood outside the college, or discreetly inside the hall if it were raining, and he accompanied her onto the trolley-car and then he walked her home.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Every Thursday, Tony stood outside the college, or discreetly inside the hall if it were raining, and he accompanied her onto the trolley-car and then he walked her home.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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She saw Tony every day, sometimes merely meeting him outside the college and travelling with him on the trolley-car and letting him walk her as far as Mrs. Kehoes.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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And not only that, but everything else that had happened in Brooklyn seemed as though it had almost dissolved and was no longer richly present for herher room in Mrs. Kehoes, for example, or her exams, or the trolley-car from Brooklyn College back home, or the dancehall, or the apartment where Tony lived with his parents and his three brothers, or the shop floor at Bartoccis.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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