drawing-room car

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Five minutes later I was seated in a palatial drawing-room car bounding up and down quite a good deal on the elastic plush-covered seat.

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.

Dining-room, sleeping car, drawing-room car, smoking-room, library, bath-room, lavatory, the whole fitted up in the most luxurious style.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack

There was no berth to be had for her and no drawing-room car on, so we rode all night in the day coach with a rather mixed lot.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)

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

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