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  • He pulls his collar up around his neck and strides down the street toward the junction, from where he is most likely to hail a taxi.†   (source)
  • The day after Wayne Parr said he had chosen powder blue for his dinner jacket, threequarters of the boys ordered the same from Tuxedo Junction.†   (source)
  • Says Underground Take the Bakerloo Line to Willesden Junction or the Jubilee to Willesden Green.†   (source)
  • Large steel junction boxes provided a makeshift hiding place, protecting them from the view of the two full-size velociraptors that stood directly before them, not five feet away.†   (source)
  • I held back my tears and left the verandah to meet with Junior at the junction where we waited for the lorry.†   (source)
  • Another few miles on Highway 35 to the junction of 675.†   (source)
  • Up ahead where the land began to drop there was a junction with a back road and some kind of commotion was taking place.†   (source)
  • And that means the trailer junction snapped.†   (source)
  • But as he lifted the leg he noted that there seemed to be a seam where the leg joined the body, a junction, and he put the knife there and cut and the leg lifted away from the body.†   (source)
  • At the T-junction I looked this way and that, not knowing where to turn.†   (source)
  • He'd got as far as the junction where Canal Street met the wider avenue that led to the town hall when two Waffen-SS troopers came round the corner.†   (source)
  • If you'd like, sir, I can phone ahead to the Texaco station at the Route 270 junction.†   (source)
  • We needed all our skill, moving up to the corner blocks, opening fire out there in the night as we rounded these strange, dark, foreign street junctions.†   (source)
  • Old railroad men still called it Chicago Junction or Junction Grove or simply the Junction, for the eight railroad lines that converged within its borders, but after the Civil War residents grew weary of the industrial resonance of the name.†   (source)
  • The telephone booth stands outside Howard Johnson's at the junction of Routes 99 and 119, and the sun splashes on the windows and glass doors of the booth.†   (source)
  • What happened was, we crossed a muddy river and marched west into the mountains, and on the third day we took a break along a trail junction in deep jungle.†   (source)
  • As he approached the junction of Earhart, Jefferson Davis, and Washington, the land rose up a bit, and he could see dry grass, a wide intersection with a large green and brown patch in the middle.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo Marin, Sr., an employee of DCS Sanitation, fell from the top of a skinning machine while cleaning it with a high-pressure hose, struck his head on the concrete floor of an IBP plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, and died.†   (source)
  • She limped down the corridor—she was beginning to feel the ache of true exhaustion in her legs and arms—and found herself at the junction of the stairs.†   (source)
  • As chance would have it my father met this truck at a road junction when he was walking through the city centre.†   (source)
  • About ten miles from the junction where they had separated, an old unnamed road left the 4260 and headed straight north for almost two miles.†   (source)
  • Down the concrete steps at the station, right past the newspaper kiosk into Roseberry Avenue, half a block to the end of the T-junction, to the right the archway leading to a dank pedestrian underpass beneath the track, and to the left Blenheim Road, narrow and tree-lined, flanked with its handsome Victorian terraces.†   (source)
  • Since the roads are used only by local people who know them by sight nobody complains if the junctions aren't posted.†   (source)
  • She examined the meters, fuse boxes, and junction boxes and then took out a Canon digital camera the size of a cigarette packet.†   (source)
  • On October 10, we bombed a railway junction at Munster, and on October 14, on a day that became known as Black Thursday, the war came to an end for me.†   (source)
  • Shukhov was seeing only his wall--from the junction at the left where the blocks rose In steps, higher than his waist, to the right to the corner where it met Kilgas's.†   (source)
  • The rain came when they were sixteen miles north of an Iowa settlement called Tenville Junction.†   (source)
  • There she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine.†   (source)
  • He sat secure at the junction of all paths, seeing clearly down each, while he, Bigwig, ludicrous in his efforts to measure up to him as an enemy, clambered clumsily and ignorantly through the undergrowth, betraying himself with every movement.†   (source)
  • As the century turned he rode out of the wilderness and into Grand Junction, Colorado.†   (source)
  • "What you really want," he confided, "is a thermocouple with a cold junction compensator."†   (source)
  • And the names of junctions, counties, crossings, bridges, stations, tunnels, mountains, rivers, creeks, landings, parks, and lookout points.†   (source)
  • They could play "Stardust," "Begin the Beguine," and "Tuxedo Junction" in their sleep.†   (source)
  • Highway 29 intersected Highway 83 just south of Menard, and they made the junction at just past two in the morning.†   (source)
  • She is a high school student in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • If he can effect this junction, our army will again make a respectable appearance, and such as I hope will disappoint the enemy in their plan on Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 9 Discovered Idrove quickly through the I-10 junction as the sun fell behind me.†   (source)
  • Night was gathering by the time their party came upon the inn, a tall, timbered building that stood beside a river junction, astride an old stone bridge.†   (source)
  • The truck headed toward an intersection that had signs marking a junction.†   (source)
  • It will run non-stop to Wyatt Junction, Colorado, traveling at an average speed of one hundred miles per hour.†   (source)
  • Our train was a branch line of the Southern Railroad, which ran north from Athens through Cold Sassy, Commerce, and Maysville, connecting at Lula junction with the Airline Railroad, which went on to Atlanta and Charlotte.†   (source)
  • I moved quickly in the direction that Alder had gone, peeking down the corridors at each junction, expecting to see him.†   (source)
  • In the morning light, the entire city seemed a sculpture, a smooth array of strange volumes and shadows, grand shapes that melted into one another at surprising junctions to form complex geometries or bizarre, organic shapes reminiscent of sea life.†   (source)
  • They had travelled together as far as this station, which was a junction; and here, in a few minutes, one train would arrive and take the girls away to one school, and in about half an hour another train would arrive and the boys would go off to another school.†   (source)
  • New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.†   (source)
  • But 120 miles away in the Virginia railroad junction of Petersburg, any thought of serenity is a fantasy.†   (source)
  • Catti-brie was waiting for them at the junction of the final passage that led to the open air.†   (source)
  • This road junction will be useful.†   (source)
  • After leaving college, I took a teaching job in Junction City, Arkansas.†   (source)
  • After he earned his bachelor's degree at Louisiana Tech, he was hired to teach English and physical education at a school in Junction City, Arkansas.†   (source)
  • The captain's walk had been added for the aging Lieutenant Peyton, so that with his brass spyglass he could observe what happened at the junction of rivers.†   (source)
  • A path through the marsh grass made a junction with the beach; she continued past this place, aware now that a man was following her, and that his eyes were fastened on her hips and the extravagant swaying motion she felt compelled to make.†   (source)
  • So I retreated smartly—Brownville Junction, Milo, Dover-Foxcroft, Guilford, Bingham, Skowhegan, Mexico,' Rumford, where I joined a road I had already traveled through the White Mountains.†   (source)
  • Last century, three engineers at the University of Wisconsin, Nordman, Parmentier, and Scott, developed a device known as a superconductive tunnel-junction neuristor.†   (source)
  • They would have to leave the house at four to get to the railroad junction by five-thirty.†   (source)
  • The other was gravelled and went through fields, boggy in winter but dry in summer, to Biriuchi, the nearest railway junction.†   (source)
  • "Whose 'Tuxedo Junction'?" asks Powerhouse.†   (source)
  • He phoned Mars Junction, New Boston, Arcadia, and Roosevelt City exchanges, theorizing that they would be logical places for persons to dial from; after that he contacted local city halls and other public institutions in each town.†   (source)
  • Every Christmas Eve day we met Uncle Jack at Maycomb Junction, and he would spend a week with us.   (source)
  • He had taken thirteen dollars from his mother's purse, caught the nine o'clock from Meridian and got off at Maycomb Junction.   (source)
  • Miss Rachel took us with them in the taxi to Maycomb Junction, and Dill waved to us from the train window until he was out of sight.   (source)
  • (Maycomb Junction was in Abbott County)   (source)
  • The wires come together in the junction box.
    junction = a place where things come together
  • It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid.   (source)
    junction = a place where two or more things come together
  • But Willesden Junction wasn't on pages 42 and 43.†   (source)
  • I arrived up here three days after we parted in Grand Junction, Colorado.†   (source)
  • Tuxedo Junction" had just concluded and a new tune hadn't begun.†   (source)
  • The three of us met at the junction down by the center and stood in line, waiting for the bus.†   (source)
  • Greenville, Evergreen, Maycomb Junction.†   (source)
  • He passed the junction to Loenen, then saw, or thought he saw, a dim light ahead.†   (source)
  • He's in another place now, a room he's rented out near the Junction.†   (source)
  • It hit the night before last in Prineville Junction and it's been with us ever since.†   (source)
  • If she'd meant this junction, wouldn't it be "take the direction you despise"?†   (source)
  • The trail junction was shaded by a row of trees and tall brush.†   (source)
  • There were over thirty of us at the junction.†   (source)
  • Tally reminded herself that the clue might not be about this junction.†   (source)
  • And this was the shape of the roads between Willesden Junction and Chapter Road.†   (source)
  • We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left.†   (source)
  • Donna and Tad were not going up to the 302 junction.†   (source)
  • She pulled over just before the junction with Erstagatan.†   (source)
  • Ron lived on a farm near White River Junction.†   (source)
  • "We should reach the junction with the Noyne by evening, Yollo," the Halfmaester called out.†   (source)
  • The sign on the edge of a roof read: Wyatt Junction.†   (source)
  • We walked out into the tunnel junction, and there was no one there.†   (source)
  • Palms and cedars grew along the cobbled road, and monuments stood at every junction.†   (source)
  • "This way," he said when they came to a junction where three trenches crossed.†   (source)
  • That had been the progression of Wyatt Junction and of the town called Stockton.†   (source)
  • Bowen Marsh was waiting at a junction where four worm-ways met.†   (source)
  • It was a big station, possibly a junction.†   (source)
  • This hypnotic state of absorption was rudely shaken but not broken when, on the third day after the visit of David and Goliath, a cream-colored Ford station wagon with KTKA / Grand Junction written on the side pulled into Annie's driveway.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise Finch always made this journey by air, but she decided to go by train from New York to Maycomb Junction on her fifth annual trip home.†   (source)
  • Finally, they passed the point where the green pickup had last been seen, and a mile later came to the junction where NF 4260 went farther north-northeast and NF 250 headed southeast.†   (source)
  • In front of the canal bridge was a junction, and from the Dunkirk direction, on the road that ran along the canal, came a convoy of three-ton lorries which the military police were trying to direct into a field beyond where the horses were.†   (source)
  • I passed another junction, where a slick shadowy passageway receded into darkness, and I was just about to walk past it and keep going when I saw a red glow at the end that said EXIT.†   (source)
  • He tipped out the plastic jar of hardware and sorted out a bolt to thread into the fitting of the junction and then tightened it down.†   (source)
  • Investigators were searching for a common link between scattered cases reported in Pueblo, Brighton, Loveland, Grand Junction, and Colorado Springs.†   (source)
  • They went to Chicago, then to Indiana, where they stopped in Logansport and Peru, then to Montpelier Junction, Ohio, and Adrian, Michigan.†   (source)
  • The adult's big head was very close to her hand, but it could not see her because of the junction box.†   (source)
  • They had been exploring some old Nez Perce sites off of National Forest 4260 in one of the more remote areas of the National Reserve, and on their way out they had come face-to-face with the vehicle, just south of the junction where NF 4260 and NF 250 split.†   (source)
  • The others around him took it up, but before Jack could hear what they wanted Roger to do now, the band began to play again — the tune was "Tuxedo Junction," with a lot of mellow sax in it but not much soul.†   (source)
  • On March 14, Franz left McCandless on the shoulder of Interstate 70 outside Grand Junction and returned to southern California.†   (source)
  • It happened, to me, nearly twenty years ago, and I still remember that trail junction and those giant trees and a soft dripping sound somewhere beyond the trees.†   (source)
  • From Grand Junction, I slept, until our layover in Denver, an hour and sixteen minutes, just as the sun was going down — where Popper and I ran and ran, for sheer relief of being off the bus, ran so far down shadowy unknown streets that I was almost afraid of getting lost, although I was pleased to find a hippie coffee shop where the clerks were young and friendly ("Bring him in!" said the purple-haired girl at the counter when she saw Popper tied out front, "we love dogs!†   (source)
  • "This middle-sized town is situated at the junction of the Louveteau River and the Jogues River and is noted for stones and other things," was Laura's first sentence.†   (source)
  • "I'm gonna get in this car and drive it to Maycomb Junction and sit there until the first train comes along and get on it.†   (source)
  • Franz offered to take McCandless to Grand Junction, Colorado, which was the farthest he could drive without missing an appointment in Salton City the following Monday.†   (source)
  • And I looked round Willesden Junction in a spiral, like when I was looking for the train station in Swindon, but on the map with my finger.†   (source)
  • I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for.†   (source)
  • We all arrived at the junction at the same time, and upon seeing each other, we became paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • No trail junction.†   (source)
  • She was far from trusting him: if he starts on Mackworth Praed and tells me I'm just like him I'll be at Maycomb Junction before sundown.†   (source)
  • There were no other passengers in the back except a shy-looking Hispanic couple with a bunch of plastic food containers on their laps, and an old drunk talking to himself, and we made it fine on the winding roads all the way through Utah and into Grand Junction, Colorado, where we had a fifty-minute rest stop.†   (source)
  • No trains went there—Maycomb Junction, a courtesy title, was located in Abbott County, twenty miles away.†   (source)
  • And when the train stopped at Willesden Junction and the doors opened automatically I walked out of the train.†   (source)
  • We paid the driver and walked across the rusty bridge two at a time, and then had to walk all day to a junction where we waited for another bus that would arrive the next morning.†   (source)
  • Three days later he crossed the Canadian border at Roosville, British Columbia, and thumbed north through Skookumchuck and Radium Junction, Lake Louise and Jasper, Prince George and Dawson Creek, where, in the town center, he took a snapshot of the signpost marking the official start of the Alaska Highway.†   (source)
  • And then the bottom line scrolled up and disappeared and a different line scrolled up into its place and the sign said 1 HARROW & WEALDSTONE 1 MIN 2 WILLESDEN JUNCTION 4 MIN.†   (source)
  • And I timed the distance between stations all the way to Willesden Junction and all the times between stations were multiples of 15 seconds like this….†   (source)
  • And then I had to work out which way to go, so I stoodagainst a wall so people didn't touch me, and there was a sign for Bakerloo Line and District and Circle Line but not one for Jubilee Line like the lady had said, so I made a plan and it was to go to Willesden Junction on the Bakerloo Line.†   (source)
  • … And I read all the words and I found Willesden Junction, so I followed the arrow that said 4 and I went through the left-hand tunnel and there was a fence down the middle of the tunnel and the people were walking straight ahead on the left and coming the other way on the right like on a road, so I walked along the left and the tunnel curved left and then there were more gates and a sign said Bakerloo Line and it pointed down an escalator, so I had to go down the escalators and I had…†   (source)
  • But a block of nervous transmission, or a block of the neuromuscular junction, or cortical poisoning— that could be very swift.†   (source)
  • FEDERAL HALL, where Congress met, was a handsomely proportioned stone building at the junction of Broad and Wall Streets distinguished by its glassy cupola and colonnaded front balcony.†   (source)
  • The Ethiopian army was visible in force, tanks and armored cars parked at key junctions, checkpoints everywhere.†   (source)
  • They opened it and found themselves standing at the junction of two corridors, bathed in a cacophony of monkey cries.†   (source)
  • I kept going back to a memorable hunting trip I'd made with Al Bolen a few years earlier outside of Junction City, Arkansas.†   (source)
  • And since they knew that only Southside residents kept it up, they had notices posted in the stores, barbershops, and restaurants in that part of the city saying that the avenue running northerly and southerly from Shore Road fronting the lake to the junction of routes 6 and 2 leading to Pennsylvania, and also running parallel to and between Rutherford Avenue and Broadway, had always been and would always be known as Mains Avenue and not Doctor Street.†   (source)
  • He talked for an hour and twenty-five minutes-from two-fifty to four-fifteen-and told, while Nye attempted to list them, of highways and hotels, motels, rivers, towns, and cities, a chorus of entwining names: Apache, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Santillo, San Luis Potosi, Acapulco, San Diego, Dallas, Omaha, Sweetwater, Stillwater, Tenville Junction, Tallahassee, Needles, Miami, Hotel Nuevo Waldorf, Somerset Hotel, Hotel Simone, Arrowhead Motel, Cherokee Motel, and many, many more.†   (source)
  • I could feel where we were now, follow the turns in my head as we raced through the junction to the third sleeping hall.†   (source)
  • And after he showed me the game-rich Ouachita River bottom in the Junction City area, I thought, Boy, good times are here.†   (source)
  • He'd never really experienced the single life I really thought that after Phil graduated from Louisiana Tech and we moved to Junction City, Arkansas, he would settle down.†   (source)
  • You should have seen Orren Boyle yesterday, when the first flash came through on the radio from Wyatt Junction!†   (source)
  • But the junction suddenly seemed an insurmountable distance away: on the shore of the Mississippi, at the Taggart Bridge.†   (source)
  • When he seized the edge of the car, to brake his speed, she saw the face and the young, triumphant smile that she had seen but once before: on the platform of Wyatt Junction.†   (source)
  • Of the men who had once greeted her descent from the cab of an engine on the platform of Wyatt Junction, only Ted Nielsen was left, still running the plant of Nielsen Motors.†   (source)
  • Marshville had been the end of the Line for months past; service to Wyatt Junction had been discontinued long ago; Dr. Ferris' Reclamation Project had been abandoned this winter.†   (source)
  • Train Number 57 was lined along the track, ready to leave for Wyatt Junction, when she reached Cheyenne, left her car at the garage where she had rented it, and walked out on the platform of the Taggart station.†   (source)
  • …not bars any longer, they were the cracks of a wall which the John Galt Line had broken, the advance notice of what awaited them outside, beyond the Venetian blinds-she thought of the trip back, on the new rail, with the first train from Wyatt Junction-the trip back to her office in the Taggart Building and to all the things now open for her to win-but she was free to let it wait, she did not want to think of it, she was thinking of the first touch of his mouth on hers-she was free to…†   (source)
  • They reached the junction some time before the train was due to arrive and stood about two feet from the first set of tracks.†   (source)
  • Here, at the junction of the rivers, Lieutenant Randolph Rowzee Peyton had erected the original Fort Repose.†   (source)
  • In 1838, during the Seminole Wars, a Lieutenant Randolph Rowzee Peyton, USN, a Virginian, had been dispatched to this river junction with a force of eighteen Marines and two small brass cannon.†   (source)
  • She heard indirectly of his misfortune and rushed off to Vologda (the junction for Archangel) to look for him and obtain his release.†   (source)
  • The treetops, fencing the junction like the protecting walls of a garden, were darker than the sky which was hung with gigantic white clouds illuminated like lanterns.†   (source)
  • She hadn't gone anywhere near the Caucasus, she had simply turned around at the nearest junction and gone north to Petersburg, and was now having a lovely time with the students shooting at the police, while he was supposed to rot alive in this silly dump.†   (source)
  • A small tin switch box and a black fuel tank were all there was to mark the place as a junction; the tracks were double and did not converge again until they were hidden behind the bends at either end of the clearing.†   (source)
  • Their train glided into the suburb stop just as they reached the station and they boarded it together, and ten minutes before it was due to arrive at the junction, they went to the door and stood ready to jump off if it did not stop; but it did, just as the moon, restored to its full splendor, sprang from a cloud and flooded the clearing with light.†   (source)
  • Several miles of forest had once been cleared along the railway line on both sides of the junction, and there, among the old tree stumps overgrown with wild strawberries, the piles of timber depleted by pilfering, and the tumble-down mud huts of the seasonal laborers who had cut the trees, the deserters set up their camp.†   (source)
  • There was a droning interminable wait at a junction-town near the foot-hills.†   (source)
  • We approach a junction; at a junction I have to change.†   (source)
  • Then, there was a change and a terrible wait of several hours at a junction.†   (source)
  • This was a very convenient train; there was half an hour before dinner and half an hour after it; then, instead of changing to the branch line, as had been the rule in Lady Marchmain's day, we were met at the junction.†   (source)
  • From the same junction point, the young Atlanta, a fourth railroad was constructed southwestward to Montgomery and Mobile.†   (source)
  • He raised the rifle, sighted on the junction of the lion's head and shoulders and pulled the trigger.†   (source)
  • I got out and told the driver to go on and that if we had not caught up to them at the junction of the road to Cormons to wait there.†   (source)
  • When the authorities get suspicious, for excellent reasons, and open it, all that can be elicited will be that a bearded colonial despatched it from some junction near London.†   (source)
  • Lohne is a railway junction.†   (source)
  • And in Atlanta was the junction of the four railroads on which the very life of the Confederacy depended.†   (source)
  • Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.†   (source)
  • The inner excitement of both was intense; the hot wait at the sleepy junction of Spartanburg, the ride in the dilapidated day coaches of the branch line that ran to Augusta, the hot baked autumnal land, rolling piedmont and pine woods, every detail of the landscape they drank in with thirsty adventurous eyes.†   (source)
  • Just at the junction of chin and throat was a big red inflammation.†   (source)
  • At Stacklepoole Junction she parted from them with warm expressions of mutual regard.†   (source)
  • They had to stop over several hours at Waymore Junction to catch the Black Hawk train.†   (source)
  • The trains are never called at little junction towns; everybody knows when they come in.†   (source)
  • This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot.†   (source)
  • And then, glancing at the name on the mail-box which stood at the junction and evidently belonged to the extremely dilapidated old farm-house on the rise above, he was not a little astonished to note that the name was that of Titus Alden—Roberta's father.†   (source)
  • By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.†   (source)
  • Regarding our plans, we finally decided that Mina's guess was correct, and that if any waterway was chosen for the Count's escape back to his Castle, the Sereth and then the Bistritza at its junction, would be the one.†   (source)
  • Dean Hollister had been heard by a large group arguing with a taxi-driver, who had driven him from the junction.†   (source)
  • At Gleeson's corner he saw Hall, who had recently married the stranger's hostess at the "Coach and Horses," and who now drove the Iping conveyance, when occasional people required it, to Sidderbridge Junction, coming towards him on his return from that place.†   (source)
  • "Straight to the Junction, by the shortest way," he answered, pointing up School House Hill with his whip.†   (source)
  • Now she wanted to take the Maharajah's motor-car as well; it had gone to a Chiefs' Conference at Delhi, and she had a great scheme for burgling it at the junction as it came back in the train.†   (source)
  • Splits appeared in deep breaks, and gorges running at right angles, and then the Pass opened wide at a junction of intersecting canyons.†   (source)
  • They came to the junction of the highway and the cross-lane leading to that village, whose church-tower could be seen athwart the hollow.†   (source)
  • The ringing impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the engines from the junction, mingled with their shouts of "Men from Mars!"†   (source)
  • She went through Stourcastle without pausing and onward to a junction of highways, where she could await a carrier's van that ran to the south-west; for the railways which engirdled this interior tract of country had never yet struck across it.†   (source)
  • Oh, no; the bird that succeeds is the one that gets an office on a northeast corner, near a trolley car junction, with a 'phone number that'll be easy for patients to remember!†   (source)
  • Then, after the break-up of the ice on the Porcupine, he had built a canoe and paddled down that stream to where it effected its junction with the Yukon just under the Artic circle.†   (source)
  • They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, and recalled the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lumbermen, York traders, soldiers from the Maryland hills.†   (source)
  • There was very little excitement in the station, as the officials, failing to realise that anything further than a breakdown between Byfleet and Woking junction had occurred, were running the theatre trains which usually passed through Woking round by Virginia Water or Guildford.†   (source)
  • To get home he had to travel by a steam tram-car, and two branches of railway, with much waiting at a junction.†   (source)
  • But the bay was as good as Frome's word, and we pushed on to the Junction through the wild white scene.†   (source)
  • Two of the cells on the lower passage—those at the junction of the narrower passage—faced the execution-room door.†   (source)
  • To the Junction-in this storm?†   (source)
  • One day not so long after Clyde's discovery of his sister Esta, Hortense, walking along Baltimore Street near its junction with Fifteenth—the smartest portion of the shopping section of the city—at the noon hour—with Doris Trine, another shop girl in her department store, saw in the window of one of the smaller and less exclusive fur stores of the city, a fur jacket of beaver that to her, viewed from the eye-point of her own particular build, coloring and temperament, was exactly what…†   (source)
  • In Woking junction, until a late hour, trains were stopping and going on, others were shunting on the sidings, passengers were alighting and waiting, and everything was proceeding in the most ordinary way.†   (source)
  • I had been sent up by my employers on a job connected with the big power-house at Corbury Junction, and a long-drawn carpenters' strike had so delayed the work that I found myself anchored at Starkfield-the nearest habitable spot-for the best part of the winter.†   (source)
  • To Clapham Junction the face of London was grimy with powder of the Black Smoke, in spite of two days of thunderstorms and rain, and at Clapham Junction the line had been wrecked again; there were hundreds of out-of-work clerks and shopmen working side by side with the customary navvies, and we were jolted over a hasty relaying.†   (source)
  • On my arrival at Starkfield, Denis Eady, the rich Irish grocer, who was the proprietor of Starkfield's nearest approach to a livery stable, had entered into an agreement to send me over daily to Corbury Flats, where I had to pick up my train for the Junction.†   (source)
  • Great was her amazement, and that of old Mrs. Varnum, on learning that Ethan Frome's old horse had carried me to and from Corbury Junction through the worst blizzard of the winter; greater still their surprise when they heard that his master had taken me in for the night.†   (source)
  • Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an obstacle, to the guide Lacoste.†   (source)
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