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Anna Karenina vocabulary
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sleeper
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Definition:a railroad tie
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[...] looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers [...]
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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It takes an experienced workman less than a minute to lay a sleeper and fix a rail on it. Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories
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Trisha Costello: they actually used Talkeetna as a base for their operations when they where trying to connect the rail from Seward to Fairbanks, and so at that time they took every single tree that you see here down and used it to make firewood and wall tents...
Chris Tarrant: and presumably sleepers; I mean, they made a lot of stuff for themselves, didn't they?
PBS. Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways "Ice Train to Nowhere" (2016)
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Had the boy run across these sleepers, chased by that man?
Tom Rob Smith. Child 44, p.287 (2008)
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