express-train

The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

April 2009 2009

The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica 2009

More securities with the label subprime or Alt-A attached to them are deemed too controversial to own, particularly with the constant threat of express-train credit downgrades taking their ratings many notches lower.

Making A Mint 2008

There was the expected blast; then the hillside shifted greasily under him, like a giant shrugging in uneasy sleep, and he heard the express-train rumble of sliding rock.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

These findings contradict the timing and geography of the express-train model for Polynesian origins.

Pacific Lizards or Red Herrings? 1999

The other sled was coming up like an express-train.

THE KING OF MAZY MAY: A STORY OF THE KLONDIKE 1993

While beating his hands against his sides he turned and looked down the long slippery slope, and figured, in case he slipped, that he would be flying with the speed of an express-train ere he took the final plunge into the icy bed of the Yukon.

Up The Slide 1993

Kiki cackled too, and then went off into her express-train performance, which drew people from all over the field at once.

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

"I've got yer now, sure," he was just repeating, when with a deafening roar the express-train came tearing down the road.

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

I was very hungry, and would willingly have re-entered the boulevards in search of a supper; but the express-train going toward

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various