stationwards

Updated: May 25, 2025

But it was not the girl's nature to waste time in useless reflections when any possible course of action lay before her. Ringing, she sent for M. Berton, the proprietor, and finding that a train left in half an hour, threw her belongings into her box and a few minutes later was in a ramshackle cab clattering stationwards.

Bettina Von Hutten - The Halo

Then he seemed to have made up his mind, and started forward suddenly with a lurch that nearly threw the boys off. He walked straight to the dead mahout and, carefully gathering him up in his trunk, wheeled round and set off stationwards. He had remembered his master's commands, and the journey to Cawnpore he must commence on the morrow.

Various - Adventures in Many Lands