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  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A train-ferry brings us across some eighteen miles of sea, and so into Sweden, and while we are waiting for the train to start again, I see through a carriage window many faces, but it is only just as the train starts, when a Swedish interviewer says—for there are interviewers here also—‘Did you not see all those people gazing at the Nobel Prize winner?’

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • In the train-ferry, which has bridged the channels of sea-divided Denmark, which in spite of the Baltic, has made Sweden contiguous with Germany, which for the purposes of railway traffic, has practically abolished

    Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

  • However, the train-ferry service continued to be uneconomic, and finally ceased on 31 March 1888. "

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • However, the train-ferry service continued to be uneconomic, and finally ceased on 31 March 1888. "

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

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