palace car

Example Sentences

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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

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

The rich effect produced by a heavily upholstered palace car is due to the mohair plush.

From Practical Angora Goat Raising by

The palace car is the mother's arms; The whistle, a low, sweet strain: The passenger winks, and nods, and blinks, And goes to sleep in the train!

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence

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

From The False Gods by Lorimer, George Horace