drawing-room car

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After dinner we repaired to our drawing-room car, and, as it was Sabbath eve, intoned some of the grand old hymns—"Praise God from whom," etc.;

From Roughing It, Part 1. by Twain, Mark

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

We had hardly been an hour under way before I saw the two objects of my watchfulness seated side by side in the drawing-room car, apparently on the friendliest terms.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

That feeling wore off, though, by the time we got settled in the drawing-room car, and I was three seats from Mrs. Erveng,—I managed that,—with Mr. Erveng and Hilliard between us.

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]

Neale carried Eugenia's two small bags down to the drawing-room car and now handed them to the porter.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield