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Examples
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His countrywide tour persuaded thousands of communities to paint their names on factory or railway-station rooftops, essential guides to navigation in a day without radio beacons or global-positioning satellites.
When Lindy Dared 2010
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She meets Alec, a married doctor, in a railway-station bar in suburban England.
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Possibly, this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway-station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant.
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Moreover, said Mr. Goodchild, with his finger on the map, this exquisite retreat was approached by a coach-road, from a railway-station called Aspatria — a name, in a manner, suggestive of the departed glories of Greece, associated with one of the most engaging and most famous of Greek women.
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Visitors fled in panic, but Sir Richard and Lady Burton went about their usual business, and were amused at seeing the terrified people rush off to the railway-station, and the queer garments in which they were clad.
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He drove to the railway-station, and took a ticket for Solentsea.
Wessex Tales 2006
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A man in semi-clerical dress was walking along the road which led from the railway-station into a provincial town.
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I went to the railway-station and made some memoranda from the time-tables.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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From the railway-station a funeral procession was seen approaching: it passed his door and went out of the town towards the village of Gaymead.
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Behind the railway-station was the river, spanned by an old Tudor bridge, whence the road diverged in two directions, one skirting the suburbs of the town, and winding round again into the high-road to Endelstow.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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