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An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
Well, she was too infirm now; and, besides, she did n't like to trust herself on the railroads. [4]
Who was he to fling back an annual pass in the face of the president of the Northeastern Railroads? [9]
It is necessary that the plan of your operations be positively determined on, before orders are given for building bridges and repairing railroads. [7]
Mr. Crewe was surprised, he said, to hear so much sentiment against the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
This, at least, seems to have been the confident belief of a faction in the state who have at heart the consolidation of certain lines of railroads. [9]
Here is a section of the act which permitted the consolidation of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
Augustus P. Flint, president of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
Why had he more than once during that period, for the first time in his life, questioned a hitherto absolute satisfaction in his position of chief counsel for the Northeastern Railroads? [9]

Sentences containing railroads two or more times

There was much bantering of Jethro by Mr. Merrill, which the ladies did not understand--talk of a mighty coalition of the big railroads which was to swallow up the little railroads. [9]

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And I tell you as I hope for happiness here and hereafter, that if Worthington succeeds in what he is trying to do, if the railroads win in this fight, there will be no mercy for the people of that state. [9]
All the railroads would have to abandon their terminals--there'd be no more traffic, and you'd have to walk across the bridge to get a drink. [9]
The Northeastern Railroads will continue to be a very large factor in the life of the people after you and I are gone, Mr. Vane. [9]
The railroads of which I have the honour to be president pay a heavy tag in this and other States. [9]
The two railroads which don't want him to get it, because the Truro would eventually become a competitor with them, are the Central and the Northwestern. [9]
And, by the way, what have you done about that brilliant Mr. Coombes of the 'Johnstown Ray,' who says 'the Northeastern Railroads give us a pretty good government'? [9]
Not that it was necessary, but the Northeastern Railroads never take any chances. [9]
But Cynthia, who was listening with one ear while Susan talked into the other, gathered that Jethro had been struggling with the railroads, and was sooner or later to engage in a mightier struggle with them. [9]
And when it was all finished and revised, it was put into a long envelope which bore this printed address: Augustus P. Flint, Pres't United Northeastern Railroads, New York. [9]
Still, if it was a total rout of the enemy, I am puzzled to know why the Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad was not seized again, as you say you have all the railroads but the Richmond and Fredericksburg. [7]
There is a very loose primary law in this State, purposely kept loose by the politicians of the Northeastern Railroads, in order that they may play such tricks on decent men as they have been playing on me. [9]
Men of this type, who could be leaders, are ready to assume their responsibilities, are ready to deal fairly with railroads and citizens alike. [9]
He wants me to see the railroads and the country, so I've got to go with the Duncans. [9]
It's the fashion to be down on railroads these days. [9]
The railroads were tired of paying toll to the chief of a band of thieves and cutthroats, to a man who had long throttled the state which had nourished him, to--in short,--to Jethro Bass. [9]
The beginning of this eminence dated back to the days before the Empire, when there were many little principalities of railroads fighting among themselves. [9]
You probably know this already, but I mention it for your own good if you do not, in the hope that, through you, the Northeastern Railroads may be induced to relax their grip upon the government of this State. [9]
The really astonishing thing about Jethro's foresight (known to few only) was that he perceived clearly that the time would come when the railroads and other aggregations of capital would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him. [9]
The railroads were the strategic links. [9]
Apparently, nearly all the river towns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. [5]
He said that the railroads could not be expected to do their whole duty by the traveller unless the traveller would take some interest in the matter himself. [5]
In that day the peasant of the high altitudes will have to carry a lantern when he goes visiting in the night to keep from stumbling over railroads that have been built since his last round. [5]
The president of the Northeastern Railroads rose as he spoke these words, and held out his hand to Mr. Crewe. [9]
Too long had the Northeastern Railroads elected, for their own selfish ends, governors and legislatures and controlled railroad commissions The spirit of 1776 was abroad in the land. [9]
The information that the flowers were for the daughter of the president of the Northeastern Railroads caused a visible quickening of the little florist's regard, an attitude which aroused a corresponding disgust and depression in Austen. [9]
Railroads, corporations absorbing the chief business of the community, combined and inherited wealth, with all the subtle and intricate questions they breed, had not yet come in--and so the professional agents and the equipment which they require were not needed. [7]
Another theory is that the railroads and interests opposed to the consolidation have induced Judge Bass to take charge of their fight for them. [9]
The railroads and telegraph have done away with all that. [5]
But I am surprised that you should have jumped at a conclusion which is the result of a popular and unfortunately prevalent opinion that the Northeastern Railroads meddled in any way with the government or politics of this State. [9]
He ate his supper to-night with his usual appetite, which had always been sparing; and he would have eaten the same amount if the Northeastern Railroads had been going into the hands of a receiver the next day. [9]
He has speculated some in cholera and railroads, and has taken almost a lively interest in infernal machines and patent medicines. [5]
Ready to make roads, throw up works, tear up railroads, or hew out and build wooden bridges; or, best of all, to go for the Johnnies under hot sun or heavy rain, through swamp and mire and quicksand. [9]
Do the Northeastern Railroads wrongfully govern this State for their own ends? [9]
Of course, both railroads must be guarded and kept open, judiciously employing just so much force as is necessary for this. [7]
This past would prevent me from serving clients who might have righteous claims against your railroads, and--permit me to speak frankly--in my opinion the practice tends to make it difficult for poor people who have been injured to get efficient lawyers. [9]
And a long period had elapsed under which the Northeastern Railroads had been a law unto themselves. [9]
Those on railroads ought especially to interest you--I'm somewhat of a railroad man myself. [9]
Some half dozen or so of the railroads running through the anthracite coal region had pooled their interests,--an extremely profitable proceeding. [9]
I should announce, openly, that from this day onward the Northeastern Railroads depended for fair play on an enlightened public--and I think your trust would be well founded, and your course vindicated. [9]
A masculine version of that look Mr. Flint now beheld in the eyes of Austen Vane, and the enraging effect on the president of the United Railroads was much the same as it had been on his chief counsel. [9]
We're the puppets now, but after a while, when I'm crowded out, all these little railroads will get together and there'll be a row worth looking at, or I'm mistaken. [9]
Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States, to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the interest on it. [7]
But I do not intend to quarrel with you, Mr. Vane," he continued quickly, perceiving that Austen was about to answer him, "nor do I wish to leave you with the impression that the Northeastern Railroads meddle unduly in politics. [9]
In fact, the Northeastern Railroads and myself must work together to our mutual advantage--that has become quite clear to me. [9]
As for this nonsense about the Northeastern Railroads running things," he added more vigorously, "I guess when it's once in a man's head there's no getting it out. [9]
To quote from Mr. Crewe's speech at Hull: "The Northeastern Railroads confer--they do not pay, except in passes. [9]
And Jethro Bass made up his mind that the victory of the railroads, in his state at least, should not come in his day. [9]
These railroads have made havoc with the steamboat commerce. [5]
The remainder was located with military land warrants, agricultural scrip certified to States for railroads, and sold for cash. [7]
If you would learn to weld iron, or to build bridges, or railroads. [9]
Pine forests, wheat land, corn land, iron, copper, coal-wait till the railroads come, and the steamboats! [5]
The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! [5]
And I suppose it was inevitable, such being the case, and you the chief counsel for the Northeastern Railroads, that I should at some time or another be called upon to bring suits against your client. [9]
The senator let it be known that he had read the newspaper articles, and had remarked that Mr. Crewe was close to the president of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
He can go into Wall Street and fight until he controls miles of railroads and thousands and thousands of men. [9]
We do not intend to give a map of the state, or discuss the merits or demerits of the consolidation of the Central and the Northwestern and the Truro railroads. [9]
In the present instance, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Worthington's railroads were opposed, diplomatically, but another year might see the Truro Railroad and the Central acting as one. [9]
Sixteen railroads meet in Minneapolis, and sixty-five passenger trains arrive and depart daily. [5]
I should tell him of the ocean steamers, the railroads that spread themselves like cobwebs over the civilized and half-civilized portions of the earth, the telegraph and the telephone, the photograph and the spectroscope. [6]
You must have heard of her father--he is the Mr. Wing who owns all the railroads and other things, and they have a house in Newport and another in New York, and a country place and a yacht. [9]
The section, if he read its meaning aright, was fraught with the gravest consequences for the Northeastern Railroads; if he read its meaning aright, the Northeastern Railroads had been violating it persistently for many years and were liable for unknown sums in damages. [9]
But Tom said he had read about railroads in England going nearly a hundred miles an hour for a little ways, and there never was a bird in the world that could do that--except one, and that was a flea. [5]
But now we have railroads and steamboats. [9]
Jethro would never have been capable of being master of the state had he not foreseen the time when the railroads, tired of paying tribute, would turn and try to exterminate the boss. [9]
He says he has tried convict labor on his railroads, and with perfect success. [5]
Great revolutions have had their origins in back cellars; great builders of railroads have begun life with packs on their shoulders, trudging over the wilderness which they were to traverse in after years in private cars. [9]
The Honourable Hilary had had another caller that morning besides Dr. Harmon,--no less a personage than the president of the Northeastern Railroads himself, who had driven down from Fairview immediately after breakfast. [9]
These dominant bankers had contrived to gain control of the savings of thousands and thousands of fellow-citizens who had deposited them in banks or paid them into insurance companies, and with the power thus accumulated had sallied forth to capture railroads and industries. [9]
The railroads are good enough for me. [5]
But my radicalism goes back behind the establishment of railroads, Mr. Flint, back to the foundation of this government, to the idea from which it sprang. [9]
If such a gigantic undertaking could be got through, Mr. Worthington very rightly deemed that the other railroads of the state would eventually fall like ripe fruit into their caps--owning the ground under the tree, as they would. [9]
They were far from telegraphs and railroads, and they stood, as it were, in a living grave, dead to the events that stirred the globe's great populations, dead to the common interests of men, isolated and outcast from brotherhood with their kind. [5]
We have it, from a malicious and untrustworthy source, that the Northeastern Railroads paid for a new one. [9]
I deceived myself for a long time by believing that I earned my living as the attorney for the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
The messages flew far and wide to the manufacturing towns to range their guilds into line for the railroads. [9]
Not that he's dissipated --but he don't do anything but talk about railroads and the stock market to make you sick, and don't know any more about 'em than my farmer. [9]
I am a director in one or two railroads. [9]
He had hurled defiance at the Northeastern Railroads, and that was enough for Mr. Redbrook and Mr. Widgeon and their friends, who prepared to rush into the fray trusting to Heaven for speech and parliamentary law. [9]
Mr. Humphrey Crewe declares that the Northeastern Railroads govern us. [9]
There were, likewise, decisions without number handed down by the various courts before and after that celebrated session,--opinions on the validity of leases, on the extension of railroads, on the rights of individual stockholders--all dry reading enough. [9]
In the old days when there were a lot of little railroads, he and Bijah Bixby and a few others used to make something out of them, but since the consolidation, and Mr. Flint's presidency, Job stays at home. [9]
He admired the country, but he looked at Victoria, and asked a hundred exceedingly frank questions about Leith, about Mrs. Pomfret, whom he had met at his uncle's seat in Devonshire, and about Mr. Crewe and the railroads in politics. [9]
Just so, parva componere magnis, out of the cloud-wrapped conflicts of the five railroads of which our own Gaul is composed, emerged one imperial railroad, authentically and legally written down on the statute books, for all men to see. [9]
He had not come there to be lectured out of the "Book of Arguments" on the divine right of railroads to govern, but to see that certain papers were delivered in safety. [9]
It might be called a faith in the divine right of Imperial Railroads to rule, but it was left out of the verbal creed. [9]
Perhaps there were but a dozen men, however, who saw its real significance, who knew through this item that Jethro Bass was still supreme--that the railroads had failed to carry this first position in their war against him. [9]
Next is the Bloody Run and Hail Columbia country--tobacco enough can be raised there to support two such railroads. [5]
Worthington, with Duncan behind him, is trying to get possession of and consolidate all the railroads in the western part of that state. [9]
Since we have begun on the subject, however, I think I ought to tell you that I have taken the case of Zeb Meader against the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
But the railroads, before they consolidated, found the political boss in power, and had to pay him for favours. [9]
There cannot justly be any objection to having railroads and canals, any more than to other good things, provided they cost nothing. [7]
Nobody pays any attention to that sort of fireworks down to the capital, and if they was to get into committee them Northeastern Railroads fellers'd bury 'em deeper than the bottom of Salem pond. [9]
Our soldiers were assaulted, bridges were burned, and railroads torn up within her limits, and we were many days at one time without the ability to bring a single regiment over her soil to the capital. [7]
He regarded it as a matter of duty, however unpleasant and unforeseen; and if, as they said, he had been a pioneer, education and a knowledge of railroads and the world had helped him. [9]
Hunt leans out and nearly falls out, but is rescued by Division Superintendent Manning of the Northeastern Railroads, who has stepped in from Number Seven to give a little private tug of a persuasive nature to the Honourable Adam's coat-tails. [9]
We are not among those who seek to impugn motives, and while giving Mr. Crewe every credit that his charges against the Northeastern Railroads are made in good faith, we beg to differ from him. [9]
In college, in addition to keeping up his classical courses, he found time to make an exhaustive study of the railroads of the United States, embodying these ideas in a pamphlet published shortly after graduation. [9]
Ringing letter of acceptance, in which he denounces the political power of the Northeastern Railroads, and declares that the State is governed from a gilded suite of offices in New Pork. [9]
They were not a people who sought the easiest way, and the Boston Road reflects their characters: few valleys are deep enough to turn it aside; few mountains can appal it: railroads have given it a wide berth. [9]
If Porter effects a lodgment on both railroads near Hanover Court-House, consider whether your forces in front of Fredericksburg should not push through and join him. [7]

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