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

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

There were about eight persons in the chair car as Judy entered and Judy-like, she immediately became intensely interested in them.

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell

As the coaches jolted to a halt, there crawled or rather rolled from under the chair car a forlorn figure, weakened, tattered, a stowaway delivered from a perilous stolen ride on the trucks.

From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen