car-fare

We whacked this up, shared it, and sometimes loaned all of what was left of it when one of us needed it for some more gorgeous girl - adventure, such as car-fare out to Blair's Park and back -- twenty cents, bang, just like that; and ice-cream for two -- thirty cents; or tamales in a tamale-parlour, which came cheaper and which for two cost only twenty cents.

Chapter 18 2010

We could ill spare any of them when they were so potent in paying car-fare for oneself and a girl.

Chapter 19 2010

(We never paid car-fare when by ourselves, being content to walk.)

Chapter 19 2010

They were to meet us up town the next evening, and we hadn't the car-fare necessary to take them home.

Chapter 19 2010

Hurstwood reasoned, when he neared the last ten dollars, that he had better keep a little pocket change and not become wholly dependent for car-fare, shaves, and the like; so when this sum was still in his hand he announced himself as penniless.

Sister Carrie 2004

I bought my own clothes, paid my own expenses, car-fare, whatever I wanted, and I'd go to the movies.

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: "What did you do in the war, Grandma?" ITY Brown University 1995

'If I can ever do you a favour, like lending you a car-fare --'

Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

A knock came at the door, and my emotions received a chill: my visitor could be none but Berkley, in whose face I should see a reminder that I owed him for my car-fare.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

People have still been living in these awful dens, getting sick, and losing their children, and spending more money for doctors and medicine than would have paid their car-fare to healthier and more comfortable homes.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

"That's when your wife begins to figure out how much you would save in car-fare, and all that, if you had your own machine," replied Teggard, who had been worked just that way.

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher