Sentences with phrase «like ghost trains»

Owen Paterson may not have created his own personal railway but he must certainly take much credit for a small, independent new «Wrexham & Shropshire» line train service that has appeared, like a ghost train in a Thomas the Tank story, to spirit Mid Wales business folk to London direct.

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When we train ourselves in the scriptural precept to pray constantly, trying to be continually aware of the quiet presence of Christ, a radiance, a luminosity, like the silent, ever - present ghost in old movies, a quietness begins to sink over our beings, the quietness that engenders creative thought.

After having been away for five years, the free agent Hershiser has returned like the ghost of greatness past to find that the O'Malleys had sold the club to television people, that L.A. was on its third manager in three years (whereas Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda had managed for the previous 42) and that there was talk of the Dodgers abandoning Vero Beach, their spring training site since» 48, for... Las Vegas.

There's a moment in which one of the kids tries to get the ghost hunter to say his trademarked line (You probably know it from the original), like he's a trained animal doing the same old tricks for predictable amusement.

Each encounter with the infamous outlaws is preceded with navigation through varied old west staple landscapes like farms, towns, mills, mines, caves, mountains, marshes, trains, bridges and ghost towns as well as a shooting gallery of enemies ranging from outlaw gangs to native American warriors.