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"Freight car" Quotes from Famous Books

... not agree with everything they said, but he wished to tramp with them until something better offered. So he fell in with their humor, but made the mistake of cursing the trainmen's union. A brakeman had kicked him off a freight car just ...

— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert

... can't use that freight car without sendin' it to the hospital," replied Mr. Post, with a smile. "And our engine suffered minor bruises and contusions, as the papers say when a man is hurt. I reckon we'll be delayed a bit and it's somethin' ...

— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young

... Campbell, of Ohio, and Abraham Payne, of Rhode Island. Richard H. Dana was present, but I think he did not speak. William Lloyd Garrison and Francis Jackson were present, but took no part whatever. I rode to Boston in a freight car after the convention was over, late at night. Garrison and Jackson were sitting together and talking to a group of friends. Garrison seemed much delighted with the day's work, but said he heard too much ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... freight car stood on the outer track a hundred yards away. Its open door offered the only means of concealment that she had. She believed that the bushes were high enough still to shield her while ...

— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... later Jason led Pilgrim out of the freight car in which he had traveled from Washington to a railway station twenty-five miles from home. The river packets were not running and this was the nearest station to High Hill. It was noon and cold. Jason mounted and started south briskly and once ...

— Benefits Forgot - A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love • Honore Willsie