The Taming of Red Butte WesternCharles Scribner's Sons, 1910 - 408 páginas |
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afraid ain't Angels asked Bart Rufford began Benson Biggs's boss Bradford buckboard chair chance chief clerk Closkey Copah Cranford Crosswater Crow's Nest Dawson desk door Eleanor engine erwood ex-engineer eyes face fight fire Flemister Flemister's Ford gone Goodloe Gridley Gridley's guess gulch Hallock hand head-quarters hill hot box Howard Jefferis Judson kill knew lame duck laughed Leckhard Lidger Lidgerwood shook Little Butte look main line master-mechanic McCloskey McCloskey's mesa miles minutes Miss Brewster Nadia Navajo night nodded old spur passenger platform pretty pulled queried rail railroad Red Butte Western Red Desert roundhouse second mesa service-car side Silver Switch snapped station stay stop superintendent superintendent's talk tell thing thought Timanyoni told took track train trainmaster trouble trying turned waiting Williams window wire Wire-Silver wood word wreck yard young
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Página 99 - McCloskey came into the private office again, hat lilted to nose, and the gargoyle face portraying fresh soul agonies. "They've taken to pillaging now!" he burst out. "The 316, that new saddle-tank shifting-engine, has disappeared. I saw Broderick using the '95, and when I asked him why, he said he couldn't find the '16." "Couldn't find it?" echoed Lidgerwood. "No; nor I can't, either. It's nowhere in the yards, the roundhouse, or back shop, and none of Gridley's foremen know anything about it. I've...
Página 409 - There is grip and fire in the narrative of Ballard's triumphs over material obstacles, realism and human nature in his somewhat abrupt and tempestuous wooing.