"Railroad ticket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a railroad ticket and the five-dollar bill with which the law expected him to rehabilitate himself into good citizenship and prosperity. The warden gave him a cigar, and shook hands. Valentine, 9762, was chronicled on the books, "Pardoned by Governor," ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... envelope that enclosed the missing will, was found at the spot where the same person was seen, only a few moments later. Four days afterward, this man entered a small station in Pennsylvania, paid for a railroad ticket, with a coin identical in value and appearance with those stolen from the tin box, and as if foreordained to publish the steps he was striving to efface, accidentally left behind him the trumpet-tongued fragment of ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... words were said, Jimmy Holden made his small but confident way to the window of a railroad ticket agent. ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... the woods, another thought occurred to Mr. Temple, and he asked Frank what was the name of the man to whom the railroad ticket had ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
... didn't know anybody in town. But he told Chicky it was very particular that they should get there on time, and he would make it all right with the company for sending him out of town. Then he gave him some money to buy a railroad ticket, and told him just where to go, and what to ...
— The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle • Annie Fellows Johnston
... meet her acquaintances, and it suits the man, because it gives him greater security in his evil transaction. The girl is nearly always penniless at this stage, and the man advances the money for the railroad ticket and the necessary food. The first act that lures the girl to the dance-hall is disguised as an act of friendship, and the first bond that is placed on her to keep her there is the bond of gratitude and obligation. In addition to that, where would she go if she did not ...
— Fifteen Years With The Outcast • Mrs. Florence (Mother) Roberts
... been lucky. Someday I shall prove it. And I handle my affairs myself, by mail, as you well know. I placed the advertisement, wrote the letters of reply, wrote those letters that answered specific questions and asked others, and I wrote the check that you cashed in order to buy your railroad ticket, Mrs. Bagley. ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... from headquarters direct to the consolidated railroad ticket office. He introduced himself to the chief clerk and stated his business. The ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... I don't know what money looks like in the morning. And she'd paid her last cent of pocket-money for her railroad ticket except a quarter, which she had squandered on gum-drops. She was eating them out of a paper bag. I took her to a boarding-house on Thirty-second Street where I used to live, and hocked her. She's in soak for a dollar. ...
— Options • O. Henry |
