chair car

Example Sentences

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When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.

From Time Magazine Archive

The exclusive isolation of the chair car had not found favor with them.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

It was a chair car, and the porter had evidently been doing some sweeping, for he held in his hands a dustpan.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South by Hope, Laura Lee

Then for hours, in the Pullman chair car, he fidgeted, counting the telegraph posts, checking off the stations as they flipped past the windows, through a day of eagerness, of excited, racking anticipation.

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto