Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Mama stooped down to fix the train, but there was no train there!!

Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.

it was another to house, feed, and train them.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

Nothing was said about hotels or train journeys.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.

She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

Shippin' cattle by train was called a `` stock run ''.

But there he was at the train with an Oregon State pennant in his hand.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

He was equally comfortable distributing his translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care to his bishops so that they might better train and supervise priests, and using those same bishops as royal officials and judges.

The school specialized in engineering and petroleum chemistry, and was designed to train staff for the refinery in town.

Passengers are not always assigned specific seats, and are usually segregated into specific train cars according to passenger destination.

The web ad showed only white people seated in the upper three classes ; and a family of color in the fourth, lowest class, where they are segregated from other passengers on-board the train according to the new system.

He filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Central and Rock Island Railroads after he was forced into a segregated train car just before it passed into Arkansas.

The train slowed at a road crossing, and the big door slid open ; ;

Wilson came by train from Birmingham and looked the city over ; ;

The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;

As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.

The trains have always been fully automated and controlled by computer operations and have no driver ; a Passenger Service Agent ( PSA ) on each train, originally referred to as a " Train Captain ", is responsible for patrolling the train, checking tickets, making announcements and controlling the doors.

Etymologically, the word " education " is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“ A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing ") from ēdūcō (“ I educate, I train ”) which is related to the homonym ēdūcō (“ I lead forth, I take out ; I raise up, I erect ”) from ē-(“ from, out of ”) and dūcō (“ I lead, I conduct ”).

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.

* 2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya ;

Seneca had a lower opinion of the mob's un-Stoical appetite for ludi meridiani: " Man ... now slaughtered for jest and sport ; and those whom it used to be unholy to train for the purpose of inflicting and enduring wounds are thrust forth exposed and defenceless.

Gardner placed great importance on this new activity ; In order to attend their meetings, he had to arrange a weekend's leave, walk 15 miles to the nearest railway station in Haputale and then catch a train to the city.

He then took a train to Hangzhou in China, before continuing onto Shanghai ; because of the ongoing Chinese Civil War, the train did not stop throughout the entire journey, something that annoyed the passengers.

On 10 May 2002, the second of the Potters Bar rail accidents occurred killing seven people ; the train was at high speed when it derailed and flipped into the air when one of the carriages slid along the platform where it came to rest.

British scientists by contrast, lacked research universities and did not train advanced students ; instead the practice was to hire German-trained chemists.

Between places Stalin would travel by car or train, never by air ; he flew only once when attending the 1943 Tehran conference.

* 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the " whites-only " car of a train ; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

He boarded a Chicago-bound train in Mattoon, Illinois ; after the train had started, he was asked for his ticket.