railway-carriage

One may smoke in a railway-carriage in spite of by-laws, if one has first obtained the consent of every one present; but if there be a lady there, though she give her consent, smoke not.

Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade 2010

The mirror showed her as he had expected; she was reading as the railway-carriage swayed with the rhythm imposed by the rails.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

Now, you come down to Pavilionstone in a free and easy manner, an irresponsible agent, made over in trust to the South-Eastern Company, until you get out of the railway-carriage at high-water mark.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

My body, perhaps, is seated with ever so many people in a railway-carriage, and no wonder my companions find me dull and silent.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The water-drops beat like duck shot against the window of the railway-carriage containing Stephen and Elfride.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

I got in a railway-carriage by myself, and asked the guard to look after me because I was alone; but just before the train started he put in a man, and begged my pardon, saying it was inevitable, as there was not a place in any other carriage.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

It was a railway-carriage from Frankfort to Heidelberg.

Roundabout Papers 2006

And Michael, in his railway-carriage, with his eyes on the English grass, felt like a man on whom every one was heaping earth.

The Silver Spoon 2004

On that evening Paul Montague returned to London by the mail train, being sure that he would thus avoid a meeting with Mrs Hurtle in the railway-carriage.

The Way We Live Now 2004