The Railway Children — Vocabulary
Edith Nesbit
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'Perhaps the old gentleman won't notice,' said Bobbie. 'The aged are often weak in the eyes.' There was no sign of weakness, however, in the eyes, or in any other part of the old gentleman, as he stepped from the train and looked up and down the platform.p.133.2alternate pages8 more

'We shall always be friends with you, however nasty you are to us,' sniffed Phyllis, wildly.p.174.2alternate pages8 more

'Of course not — I'm not a kiddie,' said the boy, indignantly;p.220.8alternate pages12 more

"Oh, don't!" said Phyllis, in despair; "this is truly dreadful!"p.106.7alternate pages4 more

"He's fallen down in a fit, more likely," said Phyllis, "all human aid despaired of."p.250.6alternate pages4 more

'Yes, we will; indeed we will,' said Bobbie, earnestly; 'but we do beg your pardon — and really we haven't caught a single fish.p.148.8alternate pages7 more

But the engine-driver took the little engine and looked at it — and the fireman ceased for an instant to shovel coal, and looked, too.p.82.6alternate pages3 more

In the agitation and half darkness the night before its door had been mistaken for a cupboard's.†p.28.3alternate pages2 more

Mother was half wild with anxiety when at last the three children turned up at Three Chimneys,p.157.1alternate pages2 more

And she had to go down to tea and pretend that there was nothing the matter. The pretence was bravely made, but it wasn't very successful.p.197.3alternate pages2 more

'I didn't think that anyone would know but us,' said Bobbie, indignantly answering Peter's unspoken reproach.†p.242.1alternate pages1 more

Each of the three expressive countenances expressed the same thought.p.29.2alternate pages1 more

The girls followed him as gallant soldiers might follow the leader of a forlorn hope.p.149.7alternate pages1 more

Bobbie planted rose-bushes in her garden, but all the little new leaves of the rose-bushes shrivelled and withered, perhaps because she moved them from the other part of the garden in May, which is not at all the right time of the year for moving roses.p.185.6alternate pages1 more

Perks sat down heavily in the elbow-chair and looked at them with what Bobbie afterwards described as withering glances of gloomy despair.p.173.5alternate pages1 more

It is proposed to make a small presentation to you, in commemoration of your prompt and courageous action in warning the train on the — inst., and thus averting what must, humanly speaking, have been a terrible accident.p.124.9alternate pages1 more

'I — I don't know,' said Bobbie, angry with herself, but still clinging to that resolution of hers, not to see anything that Mother didn't mean her to see.p.98.4alternate pages

He was tired for many days after that, and the settle seemed hard and uncomfortable in spite of all the pillows and bolsters and soft folded rugs.†p.193.2alternate pages

'It's like being in a besieged castle,' Phyllis said; 'look at the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements!'p.87.9alternate pages

'Oh, don't cry — don't, said Phyllis, 'it's all right now and she patted him on one big, broad shoulder, while Peter conscientiously thumped the other.†p.230.5alternate pages