palace car

Example Sentences

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I don't respect myself as I should if I were on a Pullman palace car, speeding westward.

From The Lady of the Aroostook by Howells, William Dean

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

They were immediately recognized as portraits of Mamie Patton, formerly a Johnstown girl, and Charles DeKnight, once a Pullman palace car conductor.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

Well, that about finished the evening, with Lon and Jeff making the room sound like a Pullman palace car at midnight.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

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.