smoking compartment

Example Sentences

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When they went in, Wheaton was alone in the smoking compartment and they joined him to discuss their plans for the drive to Poindexter's place.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

I returned to the train, ate thirty cents' worth of sardines in the dining car, gave the waiter a ten-cent tip, and repaired to the smoking compartment absolutely penniless.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick

In the years before Volstead we had ridden thousands of miles silently peering at the two strangers across the smoking compartment and wondering how to get them talking.

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood

"I'll bring him out," offered Mr. Brown, getting down on his hands and knees to look under the long leather seat at one end of the smoking compartment.

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

After a time a police trooper came from the vestibule and stopped for a moment at the door of the smoking compartment.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold