Story of a Life: In that dawnHarvill P., 1965 |
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Page 45
... station staff scattered long before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to the noise of bandit hoots , accordions , gramophones and chattering machine- guns . The slightest hold - up brought savage ...
... station staff scattered long before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to the noise of bandit hoots , accordions , gramophones and chattering machine- guns . The slightest hold - up brought savage ...
Page 93
... station where , together with the station guard in his red cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do with railways is bound up for me with the poetry of travel - even to the smell of coal and smoke from the ...
... station where , together with the station guard in his red cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do with railways is bound up for me with the poetry of travel - even to the smell of coal and smoke from the ...
Page 94
... station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more beautiful in my ...
... station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more beautiful in my ...
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Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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