Example Sentences

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Shunting is sometimes a tedious process, involving much hauling, pushing, puffing, and whistling, on the part of the engine, and uncoupling of trucks and shifting of points on the part of pointsmen and porters.

From The Iron Horse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Only on these conditions can a railway manager be sure that his pointsmen are on the job.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Durand, John

Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, brakesmen, and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

Some people are so like eternal pointsmen lying in wait by the line, to shunt one's train of thought from one rail to another.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath