One may smoke in a railway-carriage in spite of by-laws, if one has first obtained the consent of every one present; but if there be a lady there, though she give her consent, smoke not. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The mirror showed her as he had expected; she was reading as the railway-carriage swayed with the rhythm imposed by the rails. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)
Now, you come down to Pavilionstone in a free and easy manner, an irresponsible agent, made over in trust to the South-Eastern Company, until you get out of the railway-carriage at high-water mark. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The water-drops beat like duck shot against the window of the railway-carriage containing Stephen and Elfride. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I got in a railway-carriage by myself, and asked the guard to look after me because I was alone; but just before the train started he put in a man, and begged my pardon, saying it was inevitable, as there was not a place in any other carriage. ❋ Unknown (2006)
My body, perhaps, is seated with ever so many people in a railway-carriage, and no wonder my companions find me dull and silent. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was a railway-carriage from Frankfort to Heidelberg. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And Michael, in his railway-carriage, with his eyes on the English grass, felt like a man on whom every one was heaping earth. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On that evening Paul Montague returned to London by the mail train, being sure that he would thus avoid a meeting with Mrs Hurtle in the railway-carriage. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And as he went down to the railway-carriage, before he went to sleep, he turned it all over in his mind. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But Fleur heeded not these sounds, her spirit, far from disembodied, fled with swift wing from railway-carriage to flowery hedge, straining after Jon, tenacious of his forbidden image, and the sound of his voice which was taboo. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I recalled Albertine alighting from a railway-carriage and telling me that she wanted to go to Saint-Mars le Vêtu, and I saw her again also with her ‘polo’ pulled down over her cheeks, I found once more possibilities of pleasure, towards which I sprang saying to myself: “We might have gone on together to Incarville, to Doncières.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
European railway-carriage with her offered a complication of irritations. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The motion of their novel vehicle was singularly gentle, the oscillation being less than that of an ordinary railway-carriage, while the diminished force of gravity contributed to the swiftness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For two whole years men of intelligence, artists, used to find Siena, Venice, Granada a ‘bore,’ and would say of the humblest omnibus, of every railway-carriage: ❋ Unknown (2003)
They let their farm-house one summer, and retired to live in a railway-carriage that was deposited as a sort of out-house in a corner of the field. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The grander and more distant features of the landscape we may see well enough from the window of the railway-carriage; but it is the foreground that interests and instructs us, like a pleasant gossiping history; and that we had, in old days, from the post-chaise window. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His seat faced toward the door, and she guessed that he had been perturbed by the approach of an acquaintance; a fact confirmed by the turning of heads and general sense of commotion which her own entrance into a railway-carriage was apt to produce. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
