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  • When I came back from Ohio this summer, I had a storage box, a plastic archive box, that I checked along with two large pullmans.

    2 moving boxes from Canada? 2008

  • Link try philip pullmans dark materials trilogy, I was forced to read it whilst waiting for the final HP book and ended up finding them much more enjoyable. — dave g

    That Damn Harry Potter - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Families before wheeled and shoulder luggage, carried sets of granite-textured hard plastic pullmans in garish, easy-to-identify-on - the-conveyer colors -- that's my bag; the chartreuse one!

    More Dads Receiving Messenger Bags Than Ties 2008

  • But as I was drawing in the third puff I was stopped by a tapping on a window I was passing, and, leaning to peer through the glass, I was confronted by a desperate glare from Nero Wolfe, from his seat in the bedroom which we had engaged in one of the new-style pullmans, where I had at last got him deposited intact.

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

  • American audience halls, pullmans, ordinary coaches and public buildings of all sorts, especially libraries, are notoriously overheated and unventilated.

    A Girl's Student Days and After Jeannette Augustus Marks 1919

  • Which accounts for a trainload of extremely disgusted gentlemen in an uproar of fancy vests and neck-wear being spilled from their pullmans in San Antonio in the early morning following the fight.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • people who didnt enjoy pullmans work are simply small minded and ignorant.

    His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Condensed Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • “I mean, three of these pullmans are Kanawha Spa cars, and I thought it likely … I thought it possible I might have a chance of meeting you, though of course I’m not in the social life there …”

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

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