"Mail train" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heard Bow Church bells all their lives. We left Liverpool for Birmingham, where we passed an afternoon and evening in the family of a manufacturer very pleasantly, and at ten o'clock took the express mail train for London. We are staying at a hotel called the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. We have our breakfast in the coffee-room, and then dine as it suits our convenience as to place and hour. We spent one day in riding about the city, ...
— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various
... country, of which Miss Hackett had given the name, so that they might seem to have been spending the evening with her. Thence it was but a step to the station of a different railway from that which went through Silverton, and they would go by the mail train to London, where Ludmilla could be deposited at Mrs. Grinstead's house at Brompton, where Martha could provide her with an outfit, while Gerald saw the editor of the 'Censor', got some money from the bank, ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Paddington, 10.20 a.m.—Mail train just started. It contains three thieves, named Sparrow, Burrell, and Spurgeon, in the first compartment ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... your beau is off," she announced cheerfully. "You won't be bothered with him again. He is leaving on the mail train for ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... we went to him. It was full noon when the news came, and nightfall saw us dashing through the murk of a wild mid-December night towards Dover pier, feeling that only the express speed of the mail train was quick enough for us to ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd
... caught you at home. I'm come to town about Lord St. Erme's business—go back by the mail train. Are you dining at home? Can you give ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge |
