Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...they screamed! I howled at them for very joy, and I felt the engine leap forward under me; they had cast off the train, and away we flew, the engine and I. Now the stations flew by, bright as live coals in a black, burnt desert, and the men shrank back as I flew away. There were lights ahead, a passenger train, hurrah! death is close after them; the train goes fast, but I fly like the wind. See, there is a station, they will have a rare show. But the engine staggers and stops, the wheels shoot fire from...