Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A car moving on rails laid on the surface of the ground, as distinguished from one moving on an elevated or an underground railway.
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Examples
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Glinnes rode the air-bus to the mountain town Circanie, hen hired an ancient surface-car to convey him to the Vale of Xian.
Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973
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Why, even six months back he could not have stood there thus, a tenth as long, before the copper name-shield of the Claridge, without collecting about him a fawning, favor-hunting throng so dense, so tenacious, and troublesome to traffic that it would have brought the officer from his place beside the surface-car tracks, caustic-tongued, to investigate and disperse it.
Winner Take All Larry Evans
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Never once during a year's observance of surface-car phenomena have I seen a row of luxuriously seated people make a movement to give place to a new-comer, no matter how old or how well gowned she may be.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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He points to tram, for surface-car; and to lift, for elevator.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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They were discursively excited for a week when Rose Larsen was followed from the surface-car to the door by an unknown man; and they were unhappily excited when, without explanations, slim, daring Jennie Cassavant was suddenly asked to leave the Home Club; and they had a rose-lighted dinner when Livy Hedger announced her engagement to a Newark lawyer.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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They crossed the city, and on Brooklyn Bridge watched the suburbanites going home, crowding surface-car and elevated.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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She rode on a San Pablo Avenue surface-car to Thirty-fourth Street, where she alighted and started to walk the three blocks to her home.
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He was still watching the brougham when a surface-car came gliding swiftly around a curve.
Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907
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Once beneath it a single bounce up from the surface-car tracks must mean a wreck.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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Similarly at Sixth Avenue, a rabble was collecting, blocking the roadway and backing up to the Elevated pillars and surface-car tracks -- but to a man balking at an invisible line drawn from corner to corner.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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