And when you return, things seem less chaotic at Newark customs and baggage claim than the cattle-car conditions at JFK. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
We sure as hell got into the cattle-car of our own free happy will. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Percentages might have varied but one thing was certain: Texans weren't ready, weren't even cattle-car close, to elect a Democrat as Governor. ❋ Rachel Farris (2010)
Then came another back-of-the-plane cattle-car flight to Houston, another hour-long deplaning, and when I checked in at Avis the clerk declared that I could either have a PT Cruiser or some other vehicle I'd never heard of with a name like the Chevy Gnat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unfortunately, the cattle-car reference, as it will forever now be known, was tweeted on the day Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi took a much-hyped flight from New Delhi to Mumbai in economy class. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ah well, the price of paying cattle-car rates, right? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Finja's point is well taken: the train may indeed be more civilized in the sense of more peaceful and less "cattle-car" ish, but also be less rational if one's goal is to get from A to B in the most efficient way. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As for John McCain, almost all of the debates were cattle-car affairs. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
As it could be helpful to others, I can affirm that a tryptophan coma helps you sleep even in American Airlines' best cattle-car accomodations. ❋ Princeofcairo (2008)
Unfortunately, AirTran the cattle-car in the sky is attempting a hostile takeover of Midwest. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So, figuring I'll just write the next story and sent it to F&SF, I'm making tapping gestures in the direction of Trace No. 2, which involves missionaries, vampires, and a cattle-car full of Chinese railway workers. ❋ Holly (2005)
Cable told Mrs. Clemens, when he returned here, that he seemed to have been entertaining himself with horses, and had a dreamy idea that he must have gone to Boston in a cattle-car. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The transatlantic flight was cattle-car crowded but endurable. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)
He routinely eschewed the unpleasant cattle-car atmosphere of the air shuttles, preferring the kind of space, relaxation and pampering possible only in the Amtrak Club Car. ❋ Lustbader, Eric Van (1992)
They needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. ❋ Unknown (1986)
That sight, awakening bitter memories of a packed cattle-car, caused her to slacken her Mazeppa-like speed. ❋ Belle Kanaris Maniates (N/A)
He entered the yards, where a train was being made up for the south, and there he saw a cattle-car with an open door. ❋ Harry Steele Morrison (N/A)
