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
No, they will put on a Pullman palace car for him.
From The Future of the American Negro by Washington, Booker T.
George M. Pullman in 1859 set for himself the task of producing a palace car which should be used for continuous and comfortable travel through long distances by day and night.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
The palace car was the mother's arms, The whistle a low sweet strain; The passenger winked, nodded and blinked And fell asleep on the train.
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.
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)
