palace car

Example Sentences

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The palace car had been so constructed that, by turning a few cranks and pulling out a few bolts, it was transformed at once into a highly decorated and extremely comfortable open barouche.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

The cart of imperfect deeds travels with more speed than the palace car of good intentions.

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

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

“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

The blue card of the palace car company was in a corner of the envelope.

From The False Gods by Lorimer, George Horace