Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sleeping-car .
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Examples
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She sat down on her lounge beside Annushka, and looked about her in the twilight of the sleeping-carriage.
Anna Karenina 2003
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The stern of the sleeping-carriage in front swayed and wagged, and the little iron bridge that connected the two platforms jerked backwards and forwards.
Vintage Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1937
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She sat down on her lounge beside Annushka, and looked about her in the twilight of the sleeping-carriage.
Chapter XXIX. Part I 1917
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Cartoner looked out of the window with an unseeing eye, and the sleeping-carriage lumbered along in silence.
The Vultures Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Mr. Trelawny had ordered a sleeping-carriage for our party; as soon as the train had started we all turned into our cubicles.
The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1879
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She sat down on her lounge beside Annushka, and looked about her in the twilight of the sleeping-carriage.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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A sleeping-carriage on the Scotch lines is not such a ghastly pretence of comfort as those on the Continent.
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