Inevitably the present extent and variety of the Belgian railways will diminish, and within the space of the ten-year plan we can expect to see a modern system concentrated on the main traffic routes like its neighbour in the Netherlands, and with its last steam locomotives and wooden coaches honourably retired to the museum.

Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.

The boat floated on the water.

The hall of the chancellory had been transformed into a cloakroom and there the crowd was thickest.