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Example sentences for "cowcatcher"

Lexicographically close words:
cowbells; cowbird; cowbirds; cowboy; cowboys; cowcumber; cowd; cowde; cowdung; cowe
  1. The cowcatcher of the locomotive, which stood panting like some frightened, trembling animal, was less than five feet from the derailer!

  2. At a word from the engineer, the four explorers climbed up on the cowcatcher and sat down on the wide seat, their hearts light as they eagerly anticipated what was coming.

  3. He climbed back on the cowcatcher of the locomotive.

  4. It was a novel sensation to the youths--sitting on the cowcatcher of the engine.

  5. We'd like it so well that we intend to occupy the seat on the cowcatcher of the engine," he said casually.

  6. The next morning they were again on their journey, this time aboard another train, the engine of which did not have the convenient cowcatcher seat.

  7. In little over two hours, Bob and Joe returned to the train, to find their fathers sitting on the cowcatcher of the engine.

  8. He was out on the running board and onto the cowcatcher so quickly that he seemed fairly to fly.

  9. Man on your cowcatcher there," he called down as Ralph started up the engine.

  10. Sure enough, on the cowcatcher sat a man, huddled up comfortably.

  11. Here's my partner," he announced, as the man Ralph had discovered on the cowcatcher appeared at the side of the cab.

  12. The lower part of the vehicle was crunched under the cowcatcher and the child was almost borne away with it.

  13. From the first bit of cold steel on the cowcatcher to the little last whiff of breath in the air-brake, they are wrought in--fibre of soul and fibre of body.

  14. A number of hilarious disciples of justice varied this proceeding one evening by breaking open the car in which one of Packard's prisoners lay confined and tying him to the cowcatcher of a train which had just arrived.

  15. Word came back from Glendive at midnight that the prisoner had reached his destination in safety, though somewhat breathless, owing to the fact that the cowcatcher "had picked up a Texas steer on the way.

  16. T type with a cowcatcher and outside cylinders, was built in 1905 by Beyer, Peacock & Co.

  17. As was true of the Baldwin-built Pioneer, the cowcatcher of the Memnon was not installed originally.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowcatcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.