palace car

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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 Lyman, William Denison

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gun and dreadnought will soon be as obsolete in the presence of arbitration and the court at the Hague as an ox-cart is obsolete in the presence of a Pullman palace car.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 Hillis, Newell Dwight

It was a journey of weeks, not a ride of twenty-three hours in a sleeping coach or palace car.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice

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

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