"'Member how we crawled in the empty ice-wagon once?" she asked Freddie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City] Reference

First, that I was not any good, second that I couldn't tackle, and third that I ran like an ice-wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference

As he did this an ice-wagon came along at a furious speed, the driver on the seat trying in vain to stop his horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Now it was a slow car that managed to roll along "like an ice-wagon," as Thad laughingly called out on going ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight] Reference

He saw that the horse attached to the ice-wagon could not be stopped and realized only too well what it meant should he be struck down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

All of a suddint a ice-wagon come rattlin 'up behin' him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch] Reference

An 'he's as haughty about it as a new man on an ice-wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War] Reference

The mobs of children follow the ice-wagon for chips of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference

Even more, he was irritated by a suspicion of the ice-wagon driver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Blue Begins] Reference

Hitch any two-mile trotter to an ice-wagon and where will he finish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference

He said he lives in New York, and drives an ice-wagon and is an ice-man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hohenzollerns in America] Reference

It was one of the old-fashioned, ice-wagon variety, jerked up and down by a wire cable.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Bottom Up]

'Twas no sthrange sight to see an ice-wagon goin 'along th' sthreet on fire -- McCarthy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen] Reference

His eyes, searching the street after this challenge to Chance, beheld an ice-wagon rumbling past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

In this fashion it came about that Farr that day was riding on an ice-wagon in Marion, learning his route.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

He crawled down again and sought out the janitress, who stopped watching an ice-wagon in the street to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference

As the time passed, I worked as boy-helper on an ice-wagon, set up pins in a bowling alley with a saloon attached, and swept out saloons at Sunday picnic grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

The ice-wagon man was peeved, as he had a right to be, and may of been going to talk back, but when he saw the rest of us getting Shelley he yelled to the man in the front to drive on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ma Pettengill] Reference

Hefty drove an ice-wagon during business hours, and, as a personal favor to Mr. Carstairs, agreed to pose for him, for a consideration, two afternoons of each week, and to sleep in the studio at night, for it was filled with valuable things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Van Bibber and Others] Reference

The fact that she was shown special favors was hotly resented, and her refusal to rehearse daily the love passages with Finnegan, the promising young comedian who two years before had driven an ice-wagon in New Orleans, was a constant grievance to the stage manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quin] Reference

Besides, in the suburbs, you are apt to sleep late, unless the solitary ice-wagon of the neighborhood makes a very uncommon rumbling in going by; and I believe that the excursion was several times postponed by the tardy return of the pleasurers from dreamland, which, after all, is not the worst resort, or the least interesting -- or profitable, for the matter of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suburban Sketches] Reference

Down the alley the ice-wagon flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoodoo You Love | clusterflock] Reference

I'd be cool as an ice-wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference

"I'm a regular ice-wagon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

"Run for all your worth, old ice-wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference

Your old ice-wagon had broken down and I-- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the line A story of college life and football] Reference

Note 1: house-wagon, alternatively "ice-wagon".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bo Diddley Lyrics] Reference