drawing-room car

Example Sentences

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Quite luckily there was a drawing-room car attached to the train, although such luxury is generally confined to the express, which does not stop here.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cleveland, Cecilia Pauline

She sat thinking how he had come up behind her that day in the drawing-room car, and of all the happy nonsense they had begun to talk, in such a hurry, together.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

On none of these great Western routes is there a drawing-room car.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Think of it—dining-car, drawing-room car, two whole cars with sleeping apartments!

From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton

With the porter's aid, she mounted the rubber-covered steps into the mahogany and upholstery of the drawing-room car.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield