locomotive

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Farther off, whales blew jets of water from their blowholes like smoke from the smokestack of a Bloomer steam locomotive.

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The Incorrigible children hugged the fortune-teller and danced in and out of her countless billowing scarves as they caught the puffs of steam from the awakening locomotive like so many wind-filled sails.

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The locomotive was a gleaming scarlet, with a forbidding front grille of inky black.

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In order for the Erebus to make its way through the thickest ice fields, the British Admiralty equipped the vessel with a fifteen-ton, twenty-five horsepower railroad locomotive engine.

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Father explained that in a locomotive, water is heated in a boiler.

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