carriageful

He could imagine that a member of the Grand Island Club had a heart attack, or a carriageful of tourists overturned, or the kid who was leaning over the ferry railing fell over the cliff at the lighthouse.

The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

But, then, it is difficult to do these things in the presence of a whole carriageful of people who make a profession of comedy, and he restrained himself, wondering a little why such an impulse should have assailed him.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Their talk was of matrimony, and the leading lady sparkled out with an engaging inquiry which embraced the whole carriageful.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

And the place, the people -- did you notice that carriageful of black women that went by us along the street?

Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Mr Beecham's groom went to his horses 'heads while Harold himself assisted his carriageful of ladies to set foot on the ground.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

The travelling German has a habit of taking off his boots when he journeys in the train by night -- and a carriageful of lower middle-class Huns, thus unshod, in the temperature at which railway compartments are habitually kept in

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

(Barber's, of course), at which he -- Johnnie -- in a new suit, with Cis beside him, made one carriageful in an extended line of carriages, all rolling circumspectly along.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

Have you ever observed how a whole carriageful of travellers on the Great Western line will drop their papers to gaze out on

From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Our carriageful reckoned up, as near as we could get at it, some three hundred years to the six of us.

The Silverado Squatters 1884

It was as if each carriageful had privately and not very heroically resolved not to be at costs, and was rather discomfited at finding that it was getting no better entertainment than it gave.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879