palace car

Example Sentences

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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 Stoddard, Charles Warren

HE reached the West in a palace car where the writers tell us the cowboys are, With the redskin bold and the centipede and the rattlesnake and the loco weed.

From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery

Now the Pullman palace car takes the New Yorker to the threshold of the sea, or to the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill

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

"There's force in that," Jack replied, "but this is no palace car to wait in."

From Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)