palace car

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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

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)

George M. Pullman in 1859 set for himself the task of producing a palace car which should be used for continuous and comfortable travel through long distances by day and night.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

No, they will put on a Pullman palace car for him.

From The Future of the American Negro by Washington, Booker T.

He whose body rides in a palace car must not carry a soul that is like unto a savage.

From Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing's Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight