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Definition of Horsecars
1. horsecar [n] - See also: horsecar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsecars
Literary usage of Horsecars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Electrical Handbook: Being a Guide for Visitors from Abroad (1904)
"... first, to provide for the continuance of the operation of the horsecars during
the electric construction, either by laying a side track along the whole ..."
2. Folio (1881)
"A; the basses were linn and clear; the attacks were all strong and exact, and
the brigade of rushers for the horsecars added a slamming- door accompaniment ..."
3. Walt Whitman: His Life and Work by Bliss Perry (1906)
"... of the Market Street horsecars, who knew him as "the Camden poet," used to
let him sit on their chairs upon the front platform for long rides. ..."
4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1904)
"Breadstuff s Carriages, horsecars and cars for steam railroads...... Clocks and
watches Chemicals, drugs, dyes and medicines Coal _ Copper (ore) ..."
5. Walt Whitman by Bliss Perry (1906)
"On pleasant days he would hobble with his cane to the ferry and cross the Delaware
to Philadelphia, where the drivers of the Market Street horsecars, ..."
6. From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin (1899)
"The only really interesting things I remember were the horsecars, which I had
never even heard of, and in one of which I had a lovely ride for five ..."
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