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Carfare

noun
1.
The fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar.  Synonym: bus fare.






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"Carfare" Quotes from Famous Books



... say, a force recruited from such dissimilar sources must be a thing of wide and sundry experience. And obviously you are right. Could a man catch up the Z. P. by the slack of the khaki riding breeches and shake out their stories as a giant in need of carfare might shake out their loose change, then might he retire to some sunny hillside of his own and build him a sound-proof house with a swimming pool and a revolving bookcase and a stable of riding horses, ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck

... good deal out of the graphic quality of the thing to say that most syphilis is concealed, that most syphilitics, during a long period of their disease, are socially presentable. Of course, when we hear that they may serve lunch to us, collect our carfare, manicure our nails, dance with us most enchantingly, or eat at our tables, it seems a little more real, but still a little too much to believe. Conviction seems to require that we see the damaged goods, the scars, the sores, the eaten bones, the hobbling cripples, the maimed, the halt, and ...
— The Third Great Plague - A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People • John H. Stokes

... cried. "Is it so strange we should bring Elkan back here for the chance of doing some more business? Three dollars carfare between here and Bridgetown wouldn't ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... are lots of people there and lots of work, and I don't like the place where I live.' The man took me to his house and kept me all night and paid my carfare to London next day. ...
— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... carfare, and I live across the Bay," Martin answered bluntly, with the idea of showing them his imperative need for ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London



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