a-w-w-w-w

Updated: May 10, 2025

Again was it answered by men who snarled, men who cursed that they might not pray. And with it: "A-w-w-w-w right! Let 'er go!" The whistles screamed. Up the grade, four engines to a plow, the jets of steam shrilling upward, coughing columns of smoke leaping blackly up the mountain side, the start was made, as the great, roaring mass of machinery gathered speed for the impact.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The White Desert