smoking-compartment

He was an Outsider; he was not one of the Old Families of the smoking-compartment.

Babbit 2004

On the way home, whenever he went into the smoking-compartment he felt guilty at deserting his wife and angry at being expected to feel guilty, but each time he triumphed, “Oh, this is going to be a great year, a great old year!”

Babbit 2004

In a spasm of righteousness he flung his cigar-case out of the smoking-compartment window.

Babbit 2004

Pullman smoking-compartment had left them to themselves,

Babbit 2004

Pullman smoking-compartment was by night, even to Babbitt it was depressing in the morning, when it was jammed with fat men in woolen undershirts, every hook filled with wrinkled cottony shirts, the leather seat piled with dingy toilet-kits, and the air nauseating with the smell of soap and toothpaste.

Babbit 2004

At the long-drawn “Alllll aboarrrrrd” — like a mountain call at dusk — they hastened back into the smoking-compartment, and till two of the morning continued the droll tales, their eyes damp with cigar-smoke and laughter.

Babbit 2004

Mr Albert Campion sat in a first-class smoking-compartment reflecting sadly that an atmosphere of stultifying decency could make even of Christmas a stuffed-owl occasion.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

If ever he had needed a quiet hour it was now, and he had sought the smoking-compartment because with a carful of women and children it seemed to promise solitude.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

Sinclair asked Foster to join him in the smoking-compartment and tell him the promised story, which the latter did.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

The two lads crossed the bridge, and, to her intense annoyance, entered a smoking-compartment.

Love at Paddington