| 单词 | pointsman |
| 例句 | That railway porters, pointsmen, guards, firemen, and drivers are, as Mr. Joynes well urges, often badly paid, and nearly always overworked, is true, but making the railways State property would not necessarily improve this. Some Objections To Socialism From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:37.647Z On this occasion a number of railway guards and pointsmen had been asked; and never shall I forget the sermon he preached to them. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z A few days after this interview with the pointsman I was talking to Sister Dora, and said: 'By the bye, Sister, I have found out where you went with the cab that day.' Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z They were "shunting" wagons across the line when the express came up, or the pointsman did n't turn the switch, or the fog obscured the danger signal. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z A pointsman will be expected to notice all signals and to obey them. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z Such a withered old face was the face of the pointsman at No. 11 point! From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel It acts like the pointsman on a railway, who, by pulling a lever, sends the train in another direction. The Intellectual Life The number of carriages and passengers was not stated, but the pointsman at the Warrington junction being at his post, waiting for the train, was surprised to hear it coming at a very rapid rate. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years Hast thou ne'er seen rough pointsmen spy Some simple English phrase—"With care" Or "This side uppermost"—and cry Like children? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 I felt my heart thumping as we drew close to the pointsman’s box; as we neared the Junction, I was all in a cold sweat. Mugby Junction Then, at all the junctions, sidings, and crossings, pointsmen are stationed, with definite instructions as to the duties to be performed by them. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson In a few seconds it reached and passed the place where the siding was connected with the main line, and where a pointsman stood ready to shift the points. The Iron Horse For at this time the interlocking system, made compulsory under the Act of 1889, had not been installed, p. 123and the safety of trains depended on due attention to the pointsman’s functions. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway I'd to tell her of what had happened, and I said that I must leave, For a pointsman's arm ain't trusty when terror lurks in his sleeve. Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two For though only a common pointsman, I've a father's feelings, too, So I sank down in a faint, sir, as my Polly was 'id from view. Successful Recitations The pointsman lay asleep near his sentry box, and the sun was blazing full on his face. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories It might have been far otherwise had Sam been a pointsman! The Iron Horse The pointsman who presides over this junction is the librarian. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction I were pointsman on the South Eastern, with an only child—a girl As got switched to a houtside porter, though fit to 'ave married a pearl. Successful Recitations The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Shunting is sometimes a tedious process, involving much hauling, pushing, puffing, and whistling, on the part of the engine, and uncoupling of trucks and shifting of points on the part of pointsmen and porters. The Iron Horse Some people are so like eternal pointsmen lying in wait by the line, to shunt one's train of thought from one rail to another. The Home and the World He said he was a pointsman, and I asked him if he would send a train down a wrong line for fifty pounds. Ideala Intelligent non-commissioned officers and men were converted into shunters, guards, and pointsmen. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Late in the same night, a pointsman, walking along the railway a little distance out of the town, came upon the body of a woman, train-crushed, horrible to view. The Nether World A pointsman's back straightened itself upright suddenly against a tramway standard by Mr Bloom's window. Ulysses Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, brakesmen, and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had. Barchester Towers Only on these conditions can a railway manager be sure that his pointsmen are on the job. The French Revolution - Volume 1 Mr Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, breaksmen, pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had. Barchester Towers |
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