drawing-room car

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There the express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a "drawing-room car," literally a series of little private drawing-rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

With her thoroughly sound mind and body and healthy appetites, every detail and every foot of the journey was a pleasure to her; even the corner of a drawing-room car on a night train.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

That lady met her at the door of the drawing-room car, and led her to the little compartment where they were screened off from the rest of the world.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

It was a very gay party, and, as a drawing-room car had been chartered for their especial use, there was nothing to impose any restraint upon them, and mirth and pleasure reigned.

From Mona by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

On our way from Springfield to Boston, a stout, black-whiskered man sat immediately in front of me, in the drawing-room car, whose maneuvers were a source of constant amusement.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes