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Definition of Trolleyed
1. trolley [v] - See also: trolley
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trolleyed
Literary usage of Trolleyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The BookmanPopular culture Periodicals (1911)
"... or motored down from our chosen private houses on the proper side of town, or
trolleyed down from our — by no means chosen — apartments with names out ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"... which lifted the steel posts and girders from the freight car behind it,
trolleyed them through the traveller and set them in place in front of itself, ..."
3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"People are now trolleyed through life to death, at least they are in other cities
besides slow New York. In Boston and Philadelphia they have drawing-room ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
""We had a delightful time last week," said the city cousin, who was describing
the joys of metropolitan life. "One evening we trolleyed out to a suburban ..."
5. National Drug Control Policy: Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the edited by J. Dennis Hastert (2001)
"... or trolleyed into the area. That particular program just went down the tubes
because they said it cost too much. So now, the men go down into that area ..."
6. Controllers for Electric Motors: A Treatise on the Modern Industrial by Henry Duvall James (1919)
"It is trolleyed over to the proper point and the load dropped without lowering
the bucket, as this saves time. ..."
7. The Medical News (1895)
"The majority of children must remain in the city during summer, and the trolleyed
streets and filthy courts and alleys are not fit for children to play in. ..."
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