whistle-calls

Updated: June 21, 2025

And the white train, the woeful train of every misery and every dolour, was returning into it all at full speed, sounding in higher and higher strains the piercing flourishes of its whistle-calls.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete

And the white train, the woeful train of every misery and every dolour, was returning into it all at full speed, sounding in higher and higher strains the piercing flourishes of its whistle-calls.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5

And the white train, the woeful train of every misery and every dolour, was returning into it all at full speed, sounding in higher and higher strains the piercing flourishes of its whistle-calls.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

The engine also began its whistle-calls of four parts, with which it signalled danger to important crossings. "Is it very far?" asked Carrie. "Not so very," said Hurstwood. He could hardly repress a smile at her simplicity. He wanted to explain and conciliate her, but he also wanted to be well out of Chicago.

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie: a Novel