Rails in example sentence

But around these buildings the space extended, and he had not imagined it so large, changed into an inky sea by the ascending waves of coal soot, bristling with high trestles which carried the rails of the foot-bridges, encumbered in one corner with the timber supply, which looked like the harvest of a mown forest.

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I try to figure out intellectually, philosophically, psychologically, what the experience of beauty is, what sensibly can be said about it and how people go off the rails in trying to understand it.

It travels on rails down a suburban road, and the cars travel underneath it.

So as you will have gathered, in my teenage years, I was off the rails, I was going every day wondering if I'd even live the next day.

So it acts as a screen to protect the rail and the commuter, and not to have objects falling on the rails.

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