"Smoking compartment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and attract no man's offensive attentions. She could enter where she liked for a meal, a cup of tea, frequent the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons when she would without waiting for a "ladies" day; stop to look at a street fight, cause no sour looks if she entered a smoking compartment on the train, mingle with the man-world unquestioned, unhindered, unnoticed, exciting at most a pleasant off-hand camaraderie due to her youth ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... for a parting gibe, took up his lantern and started through the train to pick up the fates from the last stop. In due course he halted before the inebriated one with the glittering tie-pin in the smoking compartment of the parlor car. ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... boats, it will be well to provide a smoking compartment, as most of the crew had their smoking apparatus all ready as ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot
... in the end I dozed at intervals in my empty smoking compartment; but wish to make it clear that I came on the Vision (as I will call it) with eyes open, and that it left me staring, ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the smoking compartment, thrust in his head for a moment, passed on and slammed the door of the car after him as he went ...
— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood |
