BROAD GAUGE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Broad gauge

... quarrel with it even in railway-stations, where it is most excellent. But it penetrates all forms and institutions; the Established Church itself is a specimen of complete arranging and engineering; the worshippers are classified, ticketed, and despatched safely rolling on the broad gauge of the Liturgy, in confidence of being set down at last where the conductors have contracted to take them. How accurately everybody in England knows his own place!—and he accepts it, however humble, with a determined feeling that ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various