trolley-line

Engine-sheds and boiler-houses began to dot the ground; here and there a tall chimney belched smoke, beside a lofty poppet-head or an aerial trolley-line.

Australia Felix 2003

"The old personage said that all the freight, express, everything, comes by that weird trolley-line, at its own convenience."

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

A trolley-line runs from there over a bridge to the sea-wall ... to a jetty.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

They thought, of course, that the old man would have driven away without them; they pictured the long walk from the trolley-line in the darkness and mud -- and with Lizzie dressed in her only Sunday-go-to-meeting!

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

She went to a trolley-line and took a car to the outskirts of the city where a new park had been opened.

Alice Adams 1921

It was very, very quiet, quieter than any place Elizabeth Ann had ever known, except church, because a trolley-line ran past Aunt Harriet's house and even at night there were always more or less bangings and rattlings.

Understood Betsy 1917

There are any number of houses going up, out that way; and the trolley-line runs within a block of them now, on the next street, and the traction people are laying tracks more than three miles beyond.

Chapter 12 1918

There are any number of houses going up, out that way; and the trolley-line runs within a block of them now, on the next street, and the traction people are laying tracks more than three miles beyond.

The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

She lunched alone in her "kitchenette," for George's place of employment was ten miles out of town on an interurban trolley-line, and be seldom returned before seven.

The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

She lunched alone in her “kitchenette, ” for George’s place of employment was ten miles out of town on an interurban trolley-line, and be seldom returned before seven.

Chapter 33 1918