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Black Maria

noun as in police van

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To Lee it felt uncanny to sit trapped and blindfolded in this "Black Maria" of a car while unseen rays and cameras went over him.

He accordingly went up to the driver of the Black Maria, who, cap in hand, was wiping his perspiring forehead.

Ed took the Black Maria to the house, and we took the street cars for it to the end of the line, and then walked.

Miles had been making time with the Black Maria for about a week, when the big accident happened in our town.

At the prison the scene is repeated in reverse, and the Black Maria presently rumbles away empty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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