palace car

Example Sentences

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Now I am in a palace car riding alongside the Kennebec, and recalling the incidents of my trip.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

“Don’t look much like the man who left a palace car to step into a locomotive at Stanley Junction, eh?” laughed the young man, reeking with perspiration, and greasy and grimed.

From Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail by Chapman, Allen

It was a happy surprise, and no doubt his youthful vanity was elated, that his father should have named his new palace car "Alfonso."

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)

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 Sherman, John

It was elaborately planned and elegantly finished, and resembled somewhat a palace car mounted on steel runners.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman