cable cars
- plural of cable car.
Example Sentences
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You girls who live in New York know just how the big cable-cars swing along, how fast they go, and how many people they can accommodate.
From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various
You talk, Allen, as though we were within sound of the cable-cars on Broadway.
From The Exiles and Other Stories by Davis, Richard Harding
Perhaps you won't approve of cable-cars for me, though.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame by Moses, Montrose Jonas
The cable-cars whisked around the curves before him, and beyond them he beheld the green fairness of Union Square.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander
Across the plain, and making toward the trail, wagons loaded with fodder, with rations, with camp equipment, with tents and cooking-stoves, crowded each other as closely as cable-cars on Broadway.
From Notes of a War Correspondent by Remington, Frederic
