• the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

    M.C. Beaton: the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
    M. C. Beaton (2016). “Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus”, p.293, Hachette UK