milk-wagon

In San Francisco the barbers, laundry workers, and milk-wagon drivers received such an advance in wages.

THE SCAB 2010

Their heads snapped back like marionettes on a single wire as the car leaped ahead and curved retchingly about a standing milk-wagon, whose driver stood up on his seat and bellowed after them.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

And the milk-wagon, with its yellow letters, went trundling down the road, the sun beginning to shine pleasantly in on the cool tin vessels within, and the crisp red curls and blue eyes of the driver, -- on the lantern, too, swinging from the roof inside, as Andy glanced back.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

I had to leave him with the boy while I went for a doctor and a vehicle, neither of which was easy to be had, but finally a milk-wagon was pressed into service, and although the mob had gathered together again, and were besieging the depot, yet, after some delay, we succeeded in conveying him to his home.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

A damp, sharp air was blowing up from the bay that evening, when the milk-wagon rumbled up the lane towards home.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

He heard the milk-wagon drive into the cross-street beneath his windows and stop at each house.

Alice Adams 1921

He interviewed street sweepers, hotel porters, cab drivers newspaper reporters, milk-wagon drivers, barkeepers and laborers along the river docks -- in fact every follower of an occupation which Bob judged might be sufficiently unremunerative to keep its votaries in poverty as long as they persisted in sticking to it.

The Long Chance 1918

Their heads snapped back like marionettes on a single wire as the car leaped ahead and curved retchingly about a standing milk-wagon, whose driver stood up on his seat and bellowed after them.

The Beautiful and Damned 1918

With nothing further to detain them, Mr. Hicks swung his lash and the four went off at a gallop, with the cooking utensils in the rear rattling so that it sounded like a runaway milk-wagon.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

The farmer gave him a ride to the hotel in his milk-wagon.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914