At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them.

Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.

How she would fly like the wind, up that road in front of the house, and away.

Even if I don't run like the wind I have my own bag of tricks.

2011, David Roberts, Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, →ISBN:

The Spirit Of God is like the wind. Note well that his operation is unexpected. The wind bloweth where it listeth, so that thou knowest not what wind to expect.

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