He developed an elaborate horse-car railroad system, and it made him a natural for appointment, by Mayor Hugh J. ❋ Stuart Isacoff (2011)
It was a “palace horse-car,” projecting six inches wider than any car on the train. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not only does he comport himself poorly, but his surname also implies that he may be a Jewish person, as does the fact that “he rode the bicycle to save his horse-car fare.” ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
He made his way there by horse-car and ferry — a dark, silent man — to the offices in question. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He hurried to Madison Street and boarded a horse-car, which carried him to Ogden Place in half an hour. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Cowperwood turned his eyes toward the completion of the second part of the programme — that of taking over the Washington Street tunnel and the Chicago West Division Company, which was still drifting along under its old horse-car regime. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Its publication in the Atlantic had the effect of waking up horse-car poetry all over the world. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They dodged a horse-car trolley and a cartload of earth being hauled for fill to the harbor, and hurried up the pretentious marble steps to the carved portals of the Palace. ❋ Barbara Hambly (2000)
There was a bank, and there were several large downtown business-blocks whose tenants required a lot of bookkeeping, and there was a horse-car line. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
Isolation may be made complete in the "flat," the private halls and front doors of each suite being in every respect the equivalent of those in the "tower"; the only difference being that with the "flat" the outer world begins with the public hall and its elevator, while with the "tower" it begins with the public street and its horse-car. ❋ Various (N/A)
In two minutes I heard the fast step of horses, as I supposed; in a minute more four mules rounded the corner, and a "horse-car" came dashing along the road. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the afternoon we took a ride in a diminutive horse-car on ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
Besides the water highway, on the other side, just a few feet beyond the iron roads, a horse-car track and a turnpike offer additional facilities for locomotion. ❋ M. T. W. (N/A)
If you ride down Seventh street in a horse-car, you are in a psychological curio-shop. ❋ Various (N/A)
A ladder running up to the dizzy roof of an unfinished building is no more to be resisted by him than the back platform of a horse-car, when the conductor is collecting his fare in front. ❋ Various (N/A)
As I ride in the horse-car, as I walk on the street, still more constantly as I stand before one class after another in the school-room, I am struck with the thought that here, behind the face I am looking into, is a human soul whose capacities are limited -- a soul that _cannot_ grasp the thought which catches like ❋ Various (N/A)
After breakfast we all drove in a horse-car up the main street, and were twice off the rails and sunk into a mud hole, and the boys had to help in lifting the omnibus out of it. ❋ Clara Rayleigh (N/A)
The horse-car has to a large extent taken the place of the omnibus and of the lumbering stage-coach; while vertical travelling, by means of the elevator, has become easy and luxurious in our day. ❋ George Makepeace Towle (N/A)
"They think you ought to be harnessed with a punch, like a horse-car conductor," said Miss Archer, laughing, and added, ❋ Ella Cheever Thayer (N/A)
