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  • It was quite an undertaking, laying out blankets for the passengers, setting up the trestle tables for the buffet, then lugging out the plates and cutlery and napkins and food.†   (source)
  • There was talk too that a new elevated rail line, nicknamed the Alley L for the way its trestles roofed city alleys, would be extended eastward along Sixty-third directly to Jackson Park, thus providing visitors with another means of reaching the future fair.†   (source)
  • An hour or more later the clack of the train changed pitch: we were crossing a trestle.†   (source)
  • We found it a hundred yards past a timber trestle bridge.†   (source)
  • They brought a four-meter-long table top and trestles from the attic and carried it into the garden.†   (source)
  • Past that, an old trestle bridge spanning a gorge.†   (source)
  • General Putnam was sitting behind a rough trestle table they'd set up for his desk.†   (source)
  • Two rows of trestles ran down the middle of the hall and near one of them sat Fetiukov of the 104th.†   (source)
  • A wide trestle table laden with food dominated the center of the tent, and at the table were sitting Roran and Katrina, twenty or so of the villagers from Carvahall-including Horst and his family-Angela the herbalist, Jeod and his wife, Helen, and several people Eragon did not recognize but who had the look of sailors.†   (source)
  • If you're not, well, you'd just better hope they don't open the door while the train's crossing a trestle.†   (source)
  • At a long trestle table there were at least four dozen people, passing platters of corn on the cob and dishes of home-baked beans — pea beans, soldier beans, red kidney beans.†   (source)
  • When that worker appears again he's pulling a hook along the trestle overhead and taking giant strides as he swings along it.†   (source)
  • We see the remnant span of a railroad trestle, a sculptured length of charred brown metal resting on concrete piers.†   (source)
  • Mother was so nervous, she bathed— into the trestle table while curtsying.†   (source)
  • A trestle over the river was completed in 1904, and from 1908 to 1915 three major factories were constructed: a textile mill, a phosphorous mine, and a paper mill.†   (source)
  • The sky opened like a hole where the gables had loomed before, and the wooden benches, the trestle tables, the beds that had hung on the meadhall walls were scattered to the edge of the forest, shining charcoal.†   (source)
  • The Pot and Kettle was too crowded, the Trestle too sterile, the Black Dragon too snooty.†   (source)
  • I'll need a steel trestle to throw the track across that gorge and bring it here, but it's not as hard as it looks-let me show you, have you got a piece of paper?†   (source)
  • Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear.†   (source)
  • I had walked trestles plenty of times.†   (source)
  • I heard the thunder, then the whistle of the Lowcountry Zephyr as it approached the trestle that crossed the Ashley River.†   (source)
  • After we have the stuff in place, there are the rented trestle tables to be assembled for the bar, the hooch and eats to be bought.†   (source)
  • Not much faster than a man could walk, the train moved up a steep grade, over trestles and through tunnels.†   (source)
  • Up ahead was a trestle.†   (source)
  • Red-winged blackbirds, whose shoulders were the same color as the berries, perched on a wood bridge, really a train trestle.†   (source)
  • When they reached the vicarage, the trestle was gone.†   (source)
  • The next morning the Pennsylvania train that Sophie and I were riding to Washington, D.C., on our way down to Virginia, suffered a power failure and stalled on the trestle opposite the Wheatena factory in Rahway, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • What you listened for was the different sound that ran under you when your own car crossed on a trestle, then another sound on an iron bridge; a low or a high bridge—each had its pitch, or drumbeat, for your car.†   (source)
  • Or, copying another teacher, he might walk around the trestle table, lifting things, looking at them, and then dropping them, while he talked.†   (source)
  • They stood at the trestle table and waited until Cathy came out.†   (source)
  • Then it pulled out and crossed the river on the long trestle, and gathered its strength for the slow, rising, westward pull.†   (source)
  • There were several trestles in the clearing.†   (source)
  •   There seemed a hollowing in the voices, as if they crossed a high trestle.†   (source)
  • The last time they had used the trestle table had been on Sophie's parents' tenth anniversary.†   (source)
  • The class surged forwards around the trestle table.†   (source)
  • The war council convened in the Great Hall, at four long trestle tables arranged in a broken square.†   (source)
  • He told about his problem with the trestle, how he had learned to avoid it.†   (source)
  • It was the second night following the morning at the trestle.†   (source)
  • Only bones and greasy platters remained upon the trestle tables.†   (source)
  • The tracks continued out and over the unknowable drop, supported by a trestle aeons old.†   (source)
  • Around the long trestle table a dozen women were seated.†   (source)
  • There were no more than fifty men at the trestle tables, most of them his.†   (source)
  • Near the center of the room there was a trestle table piled high with glossy apples.†   (source)
  • Jeremy nodded as he stared at the trestle.†   (source)
  • Trestle tables crowded it from wall to wall, and the ceiling rafters were black with smoke.†   (source)
  • Engineer said you was on Blind Tillie Trestle.†   (source)
  • She saw Smalljon Umber wrestle a table off its trestles.†   (source)
  • They found him in sections and pieces along the marsh that bordered the trestle.†   (source)
  • They got tossed over the trestle, all of them.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow they'd have to nail some trestles together; otherwise the work would be held up.†   (source)
  • I saw the train hurtling across the trestle and I heard the screams of the cab driver.†   (source)
  • A trestle table had been set up across the cave, in a cleft in the rock.†   (source)
  • Nobody could have redlighted a crippled old man and a dwarf over a trestle.†   (source)
  • I'd love to swing by the marina, the paper mill, and maybe the railroad trestle.†   (source)
  • Serving men hurried to lengthen the table on the dais, fetching trestles and chairs.†   (source)
  • We talked a little about me on the train trestle.†   (source)
  • With Riker's Hill in the distance, the trestle and the factory seemed perfectly aligned.†   (source)
  • I was just fixing to get up and wade across when I chanced to look up at the train trestle.†   (source)
  • Payne's greatsword rested on a trestle table, beside a whetstone and a greasy oilcloth.†   (source)
  • How did you feel when he killed himself on the trestle?†   (source)
  • We're hugging the side of a forested hill, headed for a trestle.†   (source)
  • Red-lighted, if you're lucky, and probably off a trestle.†   (source)
  • Do you know how many trains use the trestle?†   (source)
  • Looking at that trestle, I felt like I was being sung to.†   (source)
  • The oncoming engine hit the trestle, whistle screaming wttoo— wttoo-wttoo.†   (source)
  • Later somebody said we looked like spiders coming off that trestle.†   (source)
  • Nobody was go'n tote me off that trestle.†   (source)
  • With his arm around her, my daddy told Grandpa what happened on the train trestle.†   (source)
  • By gosh, he had run out over that trestle he was so scared of.†   (source)
  • The trestle shook like a leaf as the train hit it.†   (source)
  • And then she was on the trestle running toward me, her arms outstretched.†   (source)
  • And you should of seen ole Loomis, Grandpa, sprintin' onto the trestle to get the dog.†   (source)
  • But I'd never been on Blind Tillie Trestle.†   (source)
  • I put one foot on the trestle, then pulled back.†   (source)
  • I soon passed the sand barrel that was bolted onto the trestle beside the tracks.†   (source)
  • She could of at least pretended to be glad I'd escaped from the jaws of death on that trestle.†   (source)
  • In the dream I could hardly take my eyes off of Lightfoot, swaying out there on the trestle.†   (source)
  • It may have been the girl that hepped me off the trestle.†   (source)
  • That's how Blind Tillie Trestle called to me that day.†   (source)
  • THAT NIGHT in a dream I stood on the tracks at the edge of Blind Tillie Trestle.†   (source)
  • Jerking myself up, I saw I couldn't possibly get off the trestle before the train moved onto it.†   (source)
  • "If we go back to Blind Tillie Trestle we can find your bucket," I said.†   (source)
  • FOLLOWING behind me, T.R. crouched low and took a few careful steps onto the trestle.†   (source)
  • Getting beat to a pulp might have been better than what happened later at the trestle.†   (source)
  • When the train finally stopped, its caboose was maybe a hundred feet beyond the trestle.†   (source)
  • My voice echoed spooky between trestle and water and gorge.†   (source)
  • I figured she was picturing me flattened like a penny on the trestle rails.†   (source)
  • Just like she had at the depot that day she helped me off the train trestle.†   (source)
  • Ran over by a train on the trestle and livin' to tell it!†   (source)
  • I ain't go'n let you be on that-air trestle for the next train to hit.†   (source)
  • It hung suspended from the railroad trestle, directly in the path of any train that might come.†   (source)
  • We'd run, terrified, along the hobo paths, over the trestle, and through the streets.†   (source)
  • It had passed the first crossing and was curving toward the trestle, headed west.†   (source)
  • To their very great relief, Hagrid had given up on direct contact with the skrewts now, and they were merely sheltering behind his cabin today, sitting at a trestle table and preparing a fresh selection of food with which to tempt the skrewts.†   (source)
  • Professor Grubbly-Plank stood waiting for the class some ten yards from Hagrid's front door, a long trestle table in front of her laden with twigs.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a brown raincoat and a scarf over her head, a lone white woman marching back and forth on a dim street in front of the dilapidated bus station in Wilmington, Delaware, beneath a rumbling Amtrak train trestle and a cloudy sky.†   (source)
  • From the elevated trestle they saw the earthen floor of the arena and the amphitheater seating that surrounded it.†   (source)
  • It was noon when Owen and I passed under the railroad trestle bridge at the foot of the Maiden Hill Road, a few hundred yards below the Meany Granite Quarry; years later, the abutment of that bridge would be the death of Buzzy Thurston, who had successfully evaded the draft.†   (source)
  • The boar was less fortunate; it couldn't turn that fast, so all ten tons of the monster charged out onto the tiny trestle, which buckled under its weight.†   (source)
  • Harry heard her ask as they arrived at the trestle table where the group of captive Bowtruckles were scrabbling around for woodlice like so many living twigs.†   (source)
  • I said, when The Flying Yankee had gone; I meant that it was a far-fetched piece of luck that had landed us under the trestle bridge precisely at noon, but Owen smiled at me with his especially irritating combination of mild pity and mild contempt.†   (source)
  • When it was time, he carried him down to the Great Hall, where a long trestle table had been set up near the fire.†   (source)
  • There was in his attitude toward me that same mild pity and mild contempt I had seen before—when The Flying Yankee had passed over the Maiden Hill trestle bridge, precisely as Owen and I had passed under it, and I'd called this a "coincidence."†   (source)
  • His footsteps fell everywhere but on the bridge over the Schuylkill, his eyes everywhere but on the P & W trolley trestle.†   (source)
  • They broke their fast on black bread and boiled goose eggs and fish fried up with onions and bacon, at a trestle table by the river's edge.†   (source)
  • He had clearly just said something highly amusing, because Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy Parkinson and the rest continued to snigger heartily as they gathered around the trestle table and, judging by the way they all kept looking over at Harry, he was able to guess the subject of the joke without too much difficulty.†   (source)
  • Maniac tried to picture it, the two of them, making their way across the trestle, tie by tie, arms wrapped around each other.†   (source)
  • On a hill overlooking the kingsroad, a long trestle table of rough-hewn pine had been erected beneath an elm tree and covered with a golden cloth.†   (source)
  • It screamed through Gravesend every day at noon; and although Owen and I had watched it hurtle through town from the Gravesend depot, and although we had put pennies on the tracks for The Flying Yankee to flatten, we had never before been directly under the trestle bridge exactly as The Flying Yankee was passing over us.†   (source)
  • Whenever he crossed the bridge over the Schuylkill, he turned his eyes so as not to see the nearby P & W trestle.†   (source)
  • A fine grit sifted down between the railroad ties and the trestles and settled upon Owen and me; even the concrete abutments shook, and—shielding our eyes from the loosened sand—we looked up to see the giant, dark underbelly of the train, speeding above us.†   (source)
  • They called it that to set it apart from the Great Hall, where the king could feast a thousand, but it was a long room with a high vaulted ceiling and bench space for two hundred at its trestle tables.†   (source)
  • Russell's part was to wait on the trolley trestle that spanned the river, and when Piper passed underneath, bomb away from a bucketful of rocks.†   (source)
  • Mars Bar stared with growing astonishment at Maniac, whose wide, unblinking eyes were fixed on the trestle, yet somehow did not seem to register what was there.†   (source)
  • Everything went as planned — unless you count Russell's failing to sink the raft, and Piper's practically drowning trying to beach it — until Piper returned to the terminal to find Russell still out on the trestle.†   (source)
  • And that's where Russell was now, out on the middle of the trestle, high over the water, frozen in terror, not even a railing to cling to, responding neither to Piper's cries nor to the red-and-yellow P & W trolley, which also occupied the trestle, idling and tooting about twenty feet away.†   (source)
  • Outside the Merchant's House a trestle table had been set up in the shade and decorated with striped blue-and-white pennons that fluttered at every breath of air.†   (source)
  • He spun around, gathering quick impressions: shields and arms and red pennants hung on the walls; narrow windows close under the ceiling; torches mounted in wrought-iron brackets; empty fireplaces; long, dark trestle tables stacked along both sides of the hall; and a dais at the head of theroom, where a robed and bearded man stood before a high-backed chair.†   (source)
  • They stopped on the crest of a small hill, where a team of elves had set out a long trestle table and chairs.†   (source)
  • They put Bran in his father's oak chair with the grey velvet cushions, behind a long plank-and-trestle table.†   (source)
  • The steel beams and girders of the solid new trestle collapsed like a structure of matchsticks under the breath of a sigh.†   (source)
  • Already the lovely, surreal image of the relatives gathered around the trestle picnic table were beginning to dissolve, and in fifteen minutes she would not even remember that she had dreamed.†   (source)
  • Back in his solar, Jon found the Old Bear's raven perched on the back of the oak-and-leather chair behind the trestle table.†   (source)
  • The trestle was rotten, very rotten.†   (source)
  • He remounted the table upon its trestle, fixed his bed, and reordered the books, most of which had been blown apart at the spine.†   (source)
  • Right away I see what's straight above us-one of those trestle affairs like you find in meat houses, rollers on tracks to move carcasses from the cooler to the butcher without much lifting.†   (source)
  • All the platforms and trestles that had been there had been swiped by the zeks-some had been carried off to other buildings, some had been burned.†   (source)
  • Benches and trestle tables ran along either side of the hall, with room for fifty men …. though twice that number had squeezed themselves inside.†   (source)
  • Again and again his mind tried to turn itself to thoughtful, lunatic consideration of the awful space between this trestle and the river below.†   (source)
  • The worker grabs the top and bunches and twists it like a burlap sack and pulls the trolley clicking back over the trestle to the catwalk and looks up to where those two guys in white shirts are standing.†   (source)
  • Plane crashes, oil tank explosions, blast-furnace break-outs, high-tension wire electrocutions, subway cave-ins and trestle collapses —they'll see them all.†   (source)
  • Afterward trestle tables were set up beneath the small flint tower, and they feasted on quail, venison, and roast boar, washing it down with a fine light mead.†   (source)
  • The trestle had begun to twist further, screaming, pulling loose from itself, giving-"Then I shall leave you."†   (source)
  • The science of sound has astonishing aspects, which laymen would scarcely suspect…… " Some fifty feet away from the farmhouse, Dr. Stadler saw a structure, obviously new and of no possible purpose whatever: it looked like a few spans of a steel trestle, rising into empty space, supporting nothing, leading nowhere.†   (source)
  • And in the center of that immense emptiness, at a trestle table surrounded by what seemed like acres of smooth slate floor, the Lord of the Dreadfort waited, attended only by a cupbearer.†   (source)
  • Within the tent, they found camp stools and a trestle table, a rack of spears and halberds, a floor covered with threadbare carpets in half a dozen clashing colors, and three officers.†   (source)
  • They had laid him out on a trestle table and covered him with a banner, the white banner of House Stark with its grey direwolf sigil.†   (source)
  • Trestle tables were set up in Stout's hall, an ox was slaughtered, and that night as the sun went down the empty-handed hunters ate roasts and ribs, barley bread, a mash of carrots and pease, washing it all down with prodigious quantities of ale.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it had skittered there when the Smalljon knocked the table off its trestles, or perhaps it had fallen from the hand of some dying man.†   (source)
  • Petyr was seated at the trestle table with a cup of wine to hand, looking over a crisp white parchment.†   (source)
  • I think, at a rough glance, that the costliest part of the job will be a couple of steel trestles-and there's one spot where I might have to blast a tunnel, but it's only for a hundred feet or less.†   (source)
  • I turned away and vomited, but kept walking, putting distance between me and the trestle and the marsh.†   (source)
  • Almost every highborn woman in the city sat at the long trestle tables, along with a handful of old men and young boys.†   (source)
  • …through the entropy that held him, above the dangling boy, into a skidding, plunging rush toward the light that offered, the Tower frozen on the retina of his mind's eye in a black frieze, suddenly silence, the silhouette gone, even the beat of his heart gone as the trestle settled further, beginning its final slow dance to the depths, tearing loose, his hand finding the rocky, lighted lip of damnation; and behind him, in the dreadful silence, the boy spoke from too far beneath him.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the river, near the railroad trestle, the paper mill— a huge structure—spewed clouds from the dueling smokestacks.†   (source)
  • From what I can see in the darkness, the trestle drops down to a rocky river bank twenty yards below.†   (source)
  • Ser Wendel crashed forward, knocking the table off its trestles and sending cups, flagons, trenchers, platters, turnips, beets, and wine bouncing, spilling, and sliding across the floor.†   (source)
  • Ser Hosteen slammed his foot into the tabletop, knocking it off its trestles, back into Lord Wyman's swollen belly.†   (source)
  • Alayne asked two serving men to erect the trestle table and bring up eight of the heavy oak-and-leather chairs.†   (source)
  • Beyond the wide oak-and-iron doors, eight long rows of trestle tables filled Winterfell's Great Hall, four on each side of the center aisle.†   (source)
  • "Tell him after I get out of the barracks," I said, listening as I heard the far-off whistle of the northbound train as it mounted the trestle on the far side of the Ashley River.†   (source)
  • Meribald pronounced a prayer before the food was served, and whilst the brothers ate at four long trestle tables, one of their number played for them on the high harp, filling the hall with soft sweet sounds.†   (source)
  • With the show on the brink of collapse, the working men probably would have been redlighted anyway, but not over a trestle.†   (source)
  • I did not even hear the lion roaring at night in the Hampton Park Zoo or the whistle of the 11:42 train, the Low-country Zephyr, speeding across the trestle on the river at the exact same time that it had every single night I had been on campus.†   (source)
  • You're thinking that maybe the light from the train shines as it goes over the trestle and that's what's causing the lights, right?†   (source)
  • Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood.†   (source)
  • He spotted both the highway bridge and a picturesque railroad trestle that rose high behind it as a red-tailed hawk circled overhead.†   (source)
  • We're on the trestle now.†   (source)
  • Arya took her meals at a trestle table in the undercroft with Weese and his other charges, but sometimes she would be chosen to help fetch their food, and she and Hot Pie could steal a moment to talk.†   (source)
  • Beyond it, the lights from the paper mill spread in all directions, illuminating the railroad trestle.†   (source)
  • The one on the trestle was easy, but because Riker's Hill was both distant and shrouded in mist, he wasn't absolutely certain the camera would work.†   (source)
  • The placement of the train trestle?†   (source)
  • Lexie finally slowed and then stopped to lean against the railing as Jeremy gazed up at the railroad trestle.†   (source)
  • She knew that Jeremy and Alvin would be filming the trestle and Riker's Hill from the boardwalk, which meant that she could be alone with her thoughts tonight.†   (source)
  • Instead, the lights are actually those of the Henrickson Paper Mill and are influenced by the train as it crosses the trestle, the location of Riker's Hill, and the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • You can believe thet, son, if'n you think it was God's idea for you to be up on thet there trestle in the first place.†   (source)
  • I knew the southbound train would cross the trestle over Blind Tillie Creek about when I ought to head home to milk.†   (source)
  • Also, it would take Mama and Papa a month to convince folks that, no, I wasn't at the trestle with a mill girl.†   (source)
  • Then Loma appeared on the trestle, barring my way, flapping her arms at me like a farm wife trying to keep a goat out of the garden.†   (source)
  • Get his mind off of that train trestle.†   (source)
  • I even told him about "this mill girl I know at school" who was picking blackberries near the trestle and helped me off the tracks.†   (source)
  • At the edge of the trestle, a brisk breeze had whipped up, and the tracks seemed to soar across the sky.†   (source)
  • The end of the trestle was only a few feet away, and I was like a windup tin man with four legs spinning.†   (source)
  • "S'pose it wadn' his time to die but it was that trestle's time to fall?" her sister breathed, touching my cheek.†   (source)
  • Some of the passengers rushing to get back on the train stopped to watch as Loomis loped over the trestle.†   (source)
  • People have been known to jump into a trestle barrel if a train comes at the wrong time and they get trapped.†   (source)
  • I looked up to see men, women, and children rushing towards the trestle, and others swinging themselves out of passenger cars.†   (source)
  • Opening my eyes and raising my head, I saw the red caboose getting smaller and smaller as it neared the end of the trestle.†   (source)
  • Good ole Loomis, he must of galloped all over town telling about my escape on the train trestle, because everybody seemed to know all about it.†   (source)
  • Racing by me, without even slowing down he hit the trestle like it was no different from the tracks in Cold Sassy.†   (source)
  • I remembered then that Queenie's husband, big Loomis, said they were biting real good now under the trestle at Blind Tillie Creek.†   (source)
  • Then he dashed up the path on the far side of the creek, barking all the way, and went to jumping around at the edge of the trestle.†   (source)
  • He was still holding me tight when I looked back and saw that T.R. was right out there where we'd left him on the trestle.†   (source)
  • On the davenport in yonder I hadn't even wanted to think about what happened on the trestle, but with Grandpa I didn't feel like that.†   (source)
  • I bet he never in his life had sat in the shade of a train trestle holding a fishing pole and watching dragonflies walk on water.†   (source)
  • For another, I'd never hear the last of it if Pink and them somehow found out a girl was waiting for me under Blind Tillie Trestle.†   (source)
  • I told him how I was tired of being in mourning and got mad at Papa and slipped off, how grand it felt up there on the trestle, how awful it was when the engine commenced chasing me.†   (source)
  • I know because Grandpa put it down in the family Bible, and also Toddy Hughes wrote up for the Atlanta paper what happened to me on the train trestle that day and I still have the clipping.†   (source)
  • And all of a sudden those empty pages were like the si-rene call I'd heard when I looked up at Blind Tillie Trestle and wanted to see how it was up there.†   (source)
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