palace car
Example Sentences
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No palace car or even floating palace of steamer for us when we can have two or three days of such unalloyed bliss in an open skiff moving at our own sweet will.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
The ocean voyage was in a steamboat even more luxurious then the palace car.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
Machine gun and dreadnought will soon be as obsolete in the presence of arbitration and the court at the Hague as an ox-cart is obsolete in the presence of a Pullman palace car.
From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis
Once we paused for a few minutes to contemplate the total wreck of a palace car that had recently struck a projecting bowlder—and spattered.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
However, had we been in a palace car we could not have had more fun.
From Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League by W. N. Armstrong
