Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ticket issued by a railway or steamboat company, coach proprietors, and the like, for a journey to some point and return to the place of starting, generally at a reduced charge.
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Examples
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Silverbridge, and that he could get a return-ticket at a third-class fare.
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But the gentleman dressed in white paper leaned forwards and whispered in her ear, ‘Never mind what they all say, my dear, but take a return-ticket every time the train stops.’
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And it would be sickening to be snuffed out with an unused return-ticket in one's pocket.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various
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In future, "going to Jericho" will not imply social banishment, as the party sent thither will be able to take a return-ticket.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various
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There's the razor, and the gloves, and the return-ticket, and the good spirits Alexis was in on the day before his death.
Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932
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Kitty may be on the high seas, that is, if she has taken my advice and got a return-ticket.
The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901
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All idea of Barbara's wiring for return-ticket money that day was forgotten as they went gayly towards the corral to try out different horses.
Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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There are mysteries of iniquity, under the semblance of man and woman, read of in history, or met with in the unchronicled sufferings of private life, which would almost make us believe that the powers of Darkness occasionally made use of this earth for a Foundling Hospital, and sent their imps to us, already provided with a return-ticket.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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When she came to calculate, it was found the "cha-arge" First Class (with a return ticket) was eighteen pence, - the charge by Second Class was ninepence - but ninepence/each way/, there being no return-ticket for the Second Class.
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He did not refer to the fact that the time limit on his return-ticket expired that day, for his dramatic instinct told him that such sordid matters have no place in heroics.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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