"Smoking compartment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its pockets and a straw in its mouth, on the heels of the rough-hewn trail or log road—a platformless, regulationless necessity; and it is treated even by sick persons and young children with a familiarity that sometimes affects the death-rate. There was a small maiden aged seven, who honoured our smoking compartment with her presence when other excitements failed, and it was she that said to the conductor, 'When do we change crews? I want to pick water-lilies—yellow ones.' A mere halt she knew would not suffice for her needs; but the regular fifteen-minute stop, when the red-painted tool-chest ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... Walton's Complete Angler, I guess," said a man, who passed by just then on his way to the smoking compartment, and he smiled genially ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... sped through the lonely forest of North Ontario. The train was light, for there were few passengers on board, and the road was by no means good, but in spite of the jolting Foster enjoyed his cigarette in a corner of the smoking compartment at the end of a car. A colored porter had told him his berth in the sleeper was ready, Featherstone had left the train, and most of the passengers were already in bed, but Foster did not want to follow them just yet. For a time, he had done ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... song of the rails told off the miles as the heavy train rushed westward between the endless cornfields of a flat middle State. To the well-built athletic young man who was one of the four occupants of the little end-room, smoking compartment, the outlook ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... the smoking compartment, thrust in his head for a moment, passed on and slammed the door of the car after him as he went ...
— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood |
