To your left is a green lane, partly tarmacked with chippings, which leads up to a little car-parking area.

The Trans-Mongolian connects at Chining with a Chinese railway that has been built, at the date of this writing, in a westerly direction as far as Wulumuchi (or Urumchi), capital of the Chinese province of Sinkiang.

As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail? Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.

A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, …