station-houses

There were…fire companies, brass bands, banks, hotels, theatres, “hurdy-gurdy” houses, wide-open gambling palaces…civic processions, street fights, murders…a dozen breweries and half a dozen jails and station-houses in full operation, and some talk of building a church.1

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

There were…fire companies, brass bands, banks, hotels, theatres, “hurdy-gurdy” houses, wide-open gambling palaces…civic processions, street fights, murders…a dozen breweries and half a dozen jails and station-houses in full operation, and some talk of building a church.1

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The “Karakun,” or station-houses, are filled with lords who have administered an undue dose of chastisement to their ladies, and with ladies who have scratched, bitten, and otherwise injured the bodies of their lords.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

In 1873 the seventy-one station-houses were increased to eighty-one, the line having been extended along the coasts of Cape Cod and Rhode Island.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

The track is double, -- the rails very heavy and admirably ballasted, -- station-houses and engine-houses are splendid in build, perfect in arrangement, and surrounded by neat gardens.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Wilson's, Wellsville, and Black's and White's Stations, destroying the road and station-houses; thence he proceeded to City Point, which he reached on the 18th.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

We never saw a set of men in whose countenances fierce passions of every name were so strongly marked as in the overseers and managers who were assembled at the station-houses.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

In a word, Mr. Kimball began successfully the seemingly hopeless task of converting the dirty, ruinous station-houses and their lazy, disorderly keepers and crews, scattered along the coast, to the order, discipline and efficiency of forts and drilled soldiers, and the result proved that order and discipline, when evolved out of the worst materials, can grapple with and conquer even the sea.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

When the Rustic Police shall be properly established, we think they should be empowered to seize upon all suspected non-church goers every Saturday night, keeping them in the station-houses until Sunday morning, and then marching them, securely handcuffed, up the middle aisle of the parish church.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

Hurrying past the solitary station-houses, and over here and there a little creek, our fourth night brings us to a low hill, which we need to be told is a pass of the Rocky Mountains.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various