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  • He knows nothing of European plan hotels, or of day-coaches, or of baggage-checks.

    Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921

  • He gave to Una all he had over from his diversions; urged her to buy clothes and go to matinées while he was away, and told it as a good joke that he "blew himself" so extensively on their parties that he often had to take day-coaches instead of sleepers for a week after he left New

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • No cheering crowd greeted the marines as they emerged from the gateway, and only a few persons saw them board a train of day-coaches for a near-by port.

    Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

  • As the day-coaches at the rear end of the long train swept by him, the lawyer noticed at one of the windows a man's head, with thick rumpled hair.

    Alexander's Bridge 1912

  • To reach old Morrisania, we generally walked to the car-sheds on the site of the present Madison Square Garden, there taking our seats in a train of ordinary day-coaches, drawn in sections by horses along Fourth Avenue, through the tunnel at Thirty-fourth Street - then a drear and malodorous vault!

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

  • We went all the way in day-coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey.

    My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • The conductor was hurrying through one of the day-coaches, his lantern on his arm, when a lank, fair-haired boy sat up in one of the plush seats and tweaked him by the coat.

    A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • We went all the way in day-coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey.

    My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • As the day-coaches at the rear end of the long train swept by him, the lawyer noticed at one of the windows a man's head, with thick rumpled hair.

    Alexander's Bridge Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • The train, pausing only long enough to disgorge from the baggage-car a trunk or two and from the day-coaches a thin trickle of passengers, flung on into the wilderness, cracked bell clanking somewhat disdainfully.

    The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

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