"Entrain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beyond the Gila. But he knew that Silverbell was somewhere east of the Comobabi, not north; and confidently struck out to find a short cut through the hills. From Silverbell a spur of railroad ran down to Redrock. Mr. Johnson's thought was to entrain himself for Tucson. ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... week—but between the departure of Casson's column and the theoretical arrival of reenforcements from Preston, we'd be in a bad way if Stuart should raid us in force. And with this irritating and constant leaking out of information I'm horribly afraid he'll strike us as soon as the Bucktails entrain." ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers
... time of mobilization, Lieutenant Lauzanne (Stephane) will report on the second day of mobilization to the railroad station nearest his home and there entrain ...
— Fighting France • Stephane Lauzanne
... Italian evacuation of their war-zone was the fact that every hour the need for speed became more urgent, if utter disaster was to be averted. A unit would be given twelve hours to get to the point on the railway where it was to entrain and then an hour later its time-limit would be reduced to two hours. A headquarters might be told that a sufficient supply of motor-lorries would be available to evacuate all its material and that it had better begin ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... of the short run from Tandjong Priok, it was our first acquaintance with the railway service, and when we saw the crowd awaiting to entrain at Weltervreden Station we decided to travel first-class, contrary to the advice of our friends. It was well we did so on this occasion, for the train was overcrowded; but afterwards we travelled only by the second-class, and found it ...
— Across the Equator - A Holiday Trip in Java • Thomas H. Reid
... had been spilt and the brooding spectre of war had settled drearily over Europe, there was a poignant tragedy beneath the gallantry and the beauty of that squadron of cavalry that I had seen riding out of their barrack gates to entrain for the front. The men and the horses were superb—clean-limbed, finely trained, exquisite in their pride of life. As they came out into the streets of Paris the men put on the little touch of swagger which belongs to the Frenchman when the public gaze is on him. Even the horses tossed their heads ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
... you to some of my friends, I will go back to the time when we left Winnipeg. After many false rumours, at last the day came when we were to start. On the 26th of May, 1915, the order came out that we were to entrain the following morning—we were all confined to barracks and every one was crazy with joy—we hurried through our packing, then we sat around all night, singing, telling yarns, and trying to put in the time till morning. Early next day we were ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien
... thorough policing up of barracks. Sweeping squads were sent over the ground a dozen times and finally the boys assembled outside on the battery assembling grounds, at 7:30 p. m., with packs ready and everything set to begin the march to entrain. ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman |
