service-car

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Lewiston at once; so anxious that he offered his own service-car to be run as a special train.

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  • Lewiston at once; so anxious that he offered his own service-car to be run as a special train. —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • So far as he knew, the service-car might stay there for a day or a week. —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • Asking the superintendent to have the service-car made ready immediately, he packed his handbag, left a note for Patricia, who was not yet visible, and another for Gantry, who was not in his office, and began the roundabout journey. —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • After having been gone a half-hour or more, the conductor came back to the service-car to say that the single telegraph-wire connecting —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • Though he had eaten nothing since the early breakfast in the service-car on the way to Lewiston, Evan Blount let the dinner hour go by unnoted. —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
 

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