Example Sentences

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Alba was almost born in a narrow-gauged train, at three o’clock in the afternoon in the middle of the desert.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

And in that fight to defeat the narrow-gauged railroad, the people of Garrison County learned something of Barclay as well.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

A day after that, then the puffing, snorting, narrow-gauged train took him again through Clear Creek ca�on and back to Ohadi.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Past them ran the iron rails of the narrow-gauged road which led out across the quaking tundra to the mountains and the mines.

From The Spoilers by Beach, Rex Ellingwood