sleeping-cars

It's a very short train - Just four sleeping-cars, with a baggage van 'fourgon' in French at either end.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

It's a very short train - Just four sleeping-cars, with a baggage van 'fourgon' in French at either end.

[train journey] chance encounters, danger and intrigue 2008

At Sirkeci station, under the station lights, you catch you first glimpse of the blue and gold sleeping-cars of the Orient Express.

[train journey] chance encounters, danger and intrigue 2008

At Sirkeci station, under the station lights, you catch you first glimpse of the blue and gold sleeping-cars of the Orient Express.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

The glossy yellow sleeping-cars shone impressively.

Babbit 2004

In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders -- we should have a diverting performance in sleeping-cars, and one objection to their use would be actually utilized as an extra inducement to patronize them.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

This is as delightful a holiday as one could imagine, and the foreign tour -- which has often been made merely as a succession of nights of travel in stuffy sleeping-cars or a round of overfeeding orgies at

The Automobilist Abroad

And I know my family would have objected if I had told them, because the sleeping-cars are much safer in case of accidents.

Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Julia Augusta Schwartz

In this case, however, the evils complained of comprehended "the exclusion of certain classes of persons from public inns, from the saloons and tables of the steamboat, from the sleeping-cars on railways, and from the right of sepulchre in public burial-grounds."

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

Bunkers had traveled in sleeping-cars, so they were not much surprised to see the colored porter make a bed out of a seat.

Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's Laura Lee Hope