In the end, late in March, Whittaker and Jerrard found themselves with a charter and a location approved by the state railroad commissioners, permitting them to build a six-mile railroad across Poquette Carry; to carry passengers, baggage, express and freight, but with the limitation that when the state land-agent should think the condition of drought dangerous and should so notify the company, the road should cease to run any trains until rain wet down the woods. — from The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day
decided at such short notice that
The thing had been decided at such short notice that he had not had the time to write; but he counted on M. Pondevez to do all that was necessary. — from The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet
He never once looked in Amelia's direction, and she seemed not to expect it; but he had scarcely laid hold of the chair when aunt Ann broke forth:— "Now, Amos, ain't you goin' to take no notice of 'Melia, no more'n if she wa'n't here? — from Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown
distant and she scrupled not to
I long perplexed myself with endeavouring to account for this strange circumstance, and am to this moment ignorant of its cause.' Julia remembering that Ferdinand had been confined in a dungeon of the castle, it instantly occurred to her that his prison, and that of the marchioness, were not far distant; and she scrupled not to believe that it was his voice which her mother had heard. — from A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe
dark and stormy Sunday night the
Furthermore they told how one dark and stormy Sunday night, the eve of the day set apart by Bishop Mellitus for the consecration of the new church, Edric, a fisherman busy at his craft, heard a voice calling him from the opposite side of the river. — from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt
dazzling and seems so near to
The Jungfrau stands before us clad in white raiment, beautiful as a bride adorned for her husband: in the sunlight she is dazzling and seems so near to heaven, and so pure in her vestal robes, that we are willing to believe the gateway must be there. — from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime
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