Twice a horsecar passed but I was keeping off them now; I wanted to be ready to move in any of four directions. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
"Me," said Sergeant Velie gloomily, "I wouldn't give a plugged horsecar token for that dame's chances of getting back to New York with a whole hide.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
A horsecar traveling south was just past the far corner, and we stepped out into the street, and I helped Julia up onto the rear platform as it moved past, then swung up after her. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
The palace horsecar attached to their train had already been shunted to a siding, and the ponies of the Overland Riders were found to have made the journey from the east without injury. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
The next morning Susan started for the office as usual, thinking the worst was over, but as not a single horsecar or stage was running, she took the ferry to Flushing to visit her cousins. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Without the horsecar, we would have quite literally starved. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
In this year public transit came to Richmond in the form of a horsecar. From Wordnik.com. [Richmond.com - Main] Reference
We crossed the Tallahatchie River and came to Senatobia on the horsecar. From Wordnik.com. [Diary, March 19-August 25, 1864.] Reference
Today there is scarcely a horsecar remaining in service on this Continent. From Wordnik.com. [Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective] Reference
7 Every day Louisa walked down to the wharves and took a horsecar to Suffolk Street to teach. From Wordnik.com. [Louisa May Alcott] Reference
He has so far thrown himself out of relation with American life that he describes a Boston horsecar or a New York hotel table with a sort of amused wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
We stood on the platform of the horsecar together, and when I objected to his paying my fare in the American fashion, he allowed that the Italian usage of each paying for himself was the politer way. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
Throughout the book, Flora learns ranger spells (even though they're prohibited), and other technology is downplayed; there are no cars in this California and people get around on horsecar or horseback. From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference
They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, where a great crowd was collected; the side-walks, street, horsecar rails, the shop-doors, the windows of the houses, and even the roofs, were full of people. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Eighty Days] Reference
Mr. Waldo died in 1878, and in 1882 Mrs. Waldo bought the southeast corner of 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, which despite its horsecar line was dotted with the mansions of those who eschewed the show of Fifth. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Now and then he heard the jingle of a horsecar and the ring of hoofs on the freezing pavement, or saw the lonely figure of a policeman eclipsing the illumination of the plate-glass windows on the opposite side of the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Inclination] Reference
Not a horsecar was in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't We Crazy] Reference
A horsecar shaped like a dragon. From Wordnik.com. [SBBT Stop: Ysabeau Wilce] Reference
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