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He's traveling the country in a long black hearse-like station wagon, with big photos and letters from his son Alexander plastered on the sides of the vehicle.

Norman Solomon: Making an Example of Ehren Watada 2008

It was a big black battered hearse-like automobile.

AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

Arriving at the station, our luggage was quickly carried to the canal-side, where there were numbers of gondoliers awaiting us with their hearse-like gondolas, which, as Byron describes in one of his letters, "glide along the water, looking blackly just like a coffin clapt in a canoe, where none can make out what you say or do."

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Therefore it was that Petitjean's hearse-like cart was always a welcome visitor; -- one could at least be as sure of a just return for one's money in trading with a pedler as from any other source in this thieving world.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

They had just pulled up at a country inn when they were horrified to hear a sepulchral voice from the hearse-like chariot shouting,

The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard

Marsh, so there was no interval of grey and violet between Joanna's hearse-like costume of crape and nodding feathers and the tan-coloured gown in which she astonished the twin parishes of Brodnyx and Pedlinge on the first Sunday in November.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

Many hearse-like cabs deposited weighty and respectable solemnities under the glass-roofed vestibule.

Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

Page 274 well-bred New Yorkers clinging to straps, jaded, jammed, jostled, panting in the aisle of these hearse-like equipages, to reach their goal.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David’s harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

V. Of Adversity 1909

Looking toward No. 5, Bristow saw a hearse-like wagon drawing up in front of the door.

The Winning Clue James Hay 1908