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  • In the present case they were occupied; but we could have rooms over the street, which were the same as in the patio, and which were perfectly quiet, as we could perceive from the trolley-cars grinding and squealing under their windows.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Great golden lights of trolley-cars sliding along the packed snow of the roadway.

    Babbit 2004

  • Street sounds come surging up to us - the hoarse Voice of the City - a confused blur of noise - clanging trolley-cars, rumbling wagons, and familiar cries - all the varied commotion of the home-going hour when the city's buildings are pouring forth their human tide of laborers into the clogged arteries.

    The Long Ago

  • There didn't seem to be any towns like our nice New England ones, with sociable trolley-cars connecting them and farmhouses in a lovely line between.

    The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey

  • On foot, on bicycles, in cabs, motor-cars, trolley-cars, drays, and all kinds of vehicles, every one who had a tincture of sporting spirit set off to see two men and a structure of metal and canvas -- quite ordinary persons and things, but representing a Deed and an Idea.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • In other cities with trolley-cars they rush; here they saunter.

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • They were everywhere, swarming in the souvenir stores, besieging the soda fountains, skylarking on the trolley-cars.

    The Chinese Parrot Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1926

  • They were everywhere, swarming in the souvenir stores, besieging the soda fountains, skylarking on the trolley-cars.

    The House Without a Key Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1925

  • Great golden lights of trolley-cars sliding along the packed snow of the roadway.

    Chapter 17 1922

  • Great golden lights of trolley-cars sliding along the packed snow of the roadway.

    Babbitt 1922

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