palace car

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HE reached the West in a palace car where the writers tell us the cowboys are, With the redskin bold and the centipede and the rattlesnake and the loco weed.

From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery

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

From The False Gods by Lorimer, George Horace

It was a journey of weeks, not a ride of twenty-three hours in a sleeping coach or palace car.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice

It was a happy surprise, and no doubt his youthful vanity was elated, that his father should have named his new palace car "Alfonso."

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)

They were immediately recognized as portraits of Mamie Patton, formerly a Johnstown girl, and Charles DeKnight, once a Pullman palace car conductor.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert