| 单词 | handcar |
| 例句 | A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They must have followed on one of the handcars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally spent, she curled on the handcar and dozed, aloft in the darkness as if nestled in the deepest recess of the night sky. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Cora leaned into the pump of the handcar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z An ancient handcar allowed Fist and Knife to move quickly through the system. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She tried the lever again and the handcar crawled forward. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Bike-adjacent inventions that roll atop train tracks have been known by many different names — handcar, draisine, kalamazoo and velocipede are just a few — since they first cropped up around the 1860s. You can now ride a railbike along a 17-mile track through scenic Ventura County 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z And between two wooden luggage carts from the late 1800s sits a railway velocipede, a three-wheeled handcar that was operated by pedals. Group keeps memories of Waterloo-area railroad era alive 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z In 1962, he published the marvellous “Willowdale Handcar,” in which three young people take off one day on a railroad handcar. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But the speeder earned its name, replacing its slower man-powered relative, the iconic railway handcar, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ‘Speeder’ helps keep trains running on Ballard’s short line 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z A cartoon in To Vima, the most revered newspaper here, pictured a sweating Tsipras in jeans pumping an old-fashioned railway handcar up a hill -- with Merkel at the top, timing him. Greek leader welcomed, cautiously, in Germany 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z On March 11, a Missouri S&T; student portraying St. Patrick will arrive in downtown Rolla with his court aboard a railway handcar. Mo. S&T prepares for 107th St. Pat’s celebration 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The train’s conductor, William A. Fuller, pursued the first on a handcar and then by commandeering another locomotive. Gettysburg: The Battle That the Movies Ignored 2013-07-03T11:05:28Z The master mechanic, depot master, and Jack Knight made up one handcar load. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The crippled one was helped aboard of the handcar, Zeph joined them, and the handcar sped away. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z When we reached the town I sent the chainmen back with the handcar, telling them to return for me in the morning. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z But I’m afraid the railroad company is minus one handcar this morning. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "Stealing foodstuffs, stealing rides, stealing handcars, threatening and injuring trainmen, placing obstructions on tracks, stoning freight crews, setting air brakes, and robbing ticket offices, are typical offences." Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z He kept at the levers until he saw the handcar speed safely down the main rails. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z A handcar propelled by two men came into view. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z We crossed this little lake in a steam-launch, and on the other side found the quaintest wooden railway, with a couple of rough handcars, each dragged by an ox. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open I threw the switch and in a minute I had the handcar on the main line and was pumping along after them. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z And with one wild squeak of terror Sammy Durgan flung himself at his handcar, and, pushing first like a maniac to start it, sprang aboard. The Night Operator Their flare and that of the lightning showed him three men getting a handcar in to service. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The whole thing weighed only a ton, and was of one horse power; in fact it was not larger than those handcars now in common use with railroad section-men. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years They threw themselves headlong upon handcars and work engines and bolted down the line, carrying panic before them. The Shepherd of the North I was about to give up and start toward Capital City to notify the police when I noticed there was a handcar on the tracks, just where this spur joins the main line. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Some section hands had followed Number One out of the Bend in a handcar, and had found MacAllister and his fireman about two hundred yards apart on opposite sides of the right of way. The Night Operator A handcar bolted right under the windows of the switch tower. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z Their weight sank the craft low, but it buoyed them safely, and the smaller craft began its pursuit of the larger one, somewhat after the manner of a handcar chasing a locomotive. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America You see they came up to the end of the rails, at Grafton, on a handcar. The Shepherd of the North I’m here, and I wouldn’t have been if the engine had hit the handcar when I was on it. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z By the time Sammy Durgan had the handcar started the hundred yards was twenty-five, and the monster of flame and smoke behind him was travelling two feet to his one. The Night Operator Then he noticed on the out main rails near the tower a handcar. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z You can cross the creek some way and use a handcar, if they have one. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Already the handcar was a hundred yards away, flitting into distance like some big, wonderfully fast bug, the figures of the men at the pumps rising and falling with a walking-beam regularity. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights They couldn’t see me—had no idea I was trailing them in the handcar. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Up the little handcar tracks between the high-piled stores Regan ran—and halted where a spurt of flame, ending in a vicious puff of smoke, shot out beside him, low down on the ground. The Night Operator He started on a run for the depot, as Knight sprang to the handcar and it was whirled down the rails. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z Men! get weapons, a handcar, if there is one here, and we may head off the robbers.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail He faced about just as a handcar shot out around the curve from the north, moving with amazing rapidity under the strokes of four men at the pumps. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights They didn’t stop to hold a post-mortem over the handcar. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Down to the outer tip of the wharf ran a narrow-gauge track of rusted iron rails, and over the track on occasion plied little straddlebug handcars. From Place to Place An officer and party on a handcar had been rattling in from a visit to the front outguard. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 The operator said he would have some men come down from the first station back on the route on a handcar to search for the missing rail-roader. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail But even as the handcar was passing him Mr. Trimm regretted his hastiness. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights When she got to the section shanty she would have Thorlakson get out the handcar and run her down to the nearest telegraph operator and that was all there was to it. Every Man for Himself The section men had even got upon their handcar and were pumping away up the east-bound track. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's She demanded a special train; she ordered a handcar with which to overtake the recreant train; she called for a taxi to chase across to Williams with her, a mere eighty miles of ten-foot snowdrifts. I Married a Ranger The natives upset the handcar off the track, and the newcomer settled himself for an enjoyable morning. African Camp Fires He made a jump off the right-of-way, and as the handcar flashed by he watched its flight from the covert of a weed tangle. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights My best plan, he said, was to get off there and ride back to Thorlakson on a handcar. Every Man for Himself There was nobody left in the cut, and both the train and the handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of sight. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's A handcar breezed past the station, the four section-men pumping like demons because of the slight down grade and their haste for their dinner. Good Indian Shortly after sunrise an Indian track inspector trundled in on a handcar propelled by two natives. African Camp Fires It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. Edison, His Life and Inventions He had planned then to escape after they reached the abandoned logging camp, steal a canoe and come back to the railway line and down to Thorlakson on a handcar or a freight train. Every Man for Himself I wondered why I was not sitting upon one of those mahogany seats instead of pumping a handcar. The University of Hard Knocks Perhaps he had gone the length of the Dam in one of those handcars, on which some of our people had dashed up and down the famous granite mile, their little vehicles pushed by Arabs. It Happened in Egypt "Where did you steal that boat?" and "What you running away for?" greeted me from a handcar that went by. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton In the morning a handcar provided with a seat and manned by two muscular Carib Negroes carried me away through the banana jungle by a private railroad. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond The rest of the place consisted of a long siding, a short wooden platform, a tall new standard enclosed water-tank and a little whitewashed shed where the handcar and tools were stored. Every Man for Himself And standing there, looking down upon the Indian Empire from the airy altitude of 7,000 feet, it seemed unpleasantly far, dangerously far, to be flung from a handcar. Following the Equator, Part 6 As the men were going by the station, having put their handcar away, Phil motioned to the foreman of the gang, a bright faced Irishman. The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show "It's a handcar," shouted the lad as a car swung around the bend and straightened out down the track. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South Someone on the handcar waved a hat and shouted back at him. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South Phil, hearing of his companion's misfortune, had requested Mr. Sparling to get him a handcar that he might go in search of Marie and Teddy. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South She was quickly assisted to the handcar, when the return journey was begun. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South After a long hard pull they succeeded in reaching the next town with their well loaded handcar. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South |
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