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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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The crowd which had expected to see the engine derailed, broke into resounding cheers.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDOnce derailed, the truck would then spin around on the deadly center pin, throwing the locomotive over.
INTRODUCTION OF THE LOCOMOTIVE SAFETY TRUCKJOHN H. WHITESometimes a train is derailed, as the papers call it, and two or three people have to remain over as we did all night.
NYE AND RILEY'S WIT AND HUMOR (POEMS AND YARNS)BILL NYEThe engine had been derailed by the violence of the shock, and it would require some time before we could proceed.
SOUTH AND SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICAH. FRANCES DAVIDSONThree months ago one of our engines was derailed by a wild elephant and the driver badly injured.
LIFE IN AN INDIAN OUTPOSTGORDON CASSERLYBut there is such a thing as a train of thought, and mine is constantly being derailed, and wrecked and pitched about.
DAWN O'HARA, THE GIRL WHO LAUGHEDEDNA FERBERThey had scarcely got him into the tonneau when a series of yells arose from the crowd down near the derailed freight train.
RUTH FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLANDALICE EMERSONTrain No. 98 ran into derailed car and 14 cars of time freight burned up.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTSR. C. RICHARDSIt succeeded soon in removing the impediment, and sped away with the trucks which had not been derailed.
THROUGH SHOT AND FLAMEJ. D. KESTELL.Owing to a cow straying on the line at Acton Bridge last week a goods train was derailed.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 153, DEC. 5, 1917VARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 20, 2021
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.