What is "trolley cars"

Usage examples of "trolley cars".

Such food wagons were constructed in large factories on the frames for horse-drawn trolley cars and were made to seat several customers inside the wagon, at a counter on a row of fixed stools.

He felt feathers growing from his back, knew soon he would soar to regions unimaginable, knew too that what had brought him home was not explicable without a year of talking, but a scenario nevertheless took shape in his mind: a pair of kings on a pair of trolley cars moving toward a single track, and the trolleys, when they meet at the junction, do not wreck each other but fuse into a single car inside which the kings rise up against each other in imperial intrigue, neither in control, each driving the car, a careening thing, wild, anarchic, dangerous to all else, and then Billy leaps aboard and grabs the power handle and the kings instantly yield control to the wizard.

In crowded trolley cars, people huddled away from those Nolan children.

The field behind the trolley barn is an organized mix of decaying trolley cars and railroad parts on pallets.

The victim had no originality, no wit, and Babbitt fell into a great silence and devoted himself to the game of beating trolley cars to the corner: a spurt, a tail-chase, nervous speeding between the huge yellow side of the trolley and the jagged row of parked motors, shooting past just as the trolley stopped—.

Jastrow, when I was in Germany I saw the signs on park benches and in trolley cars about the Jews.

The traffic sounds of trolley cars and the deeper rumble of truck diesels were muted by the snow cover, and Ryan's window didn't face in the proper direction to catch the first light of dawn.

It's the same reason we took out the trolley cars: Riding them was more fun than buses.

Id always loved ferryboatsraised on them, loved them with the same passion some folks like trains and trolley cars and suchand when I discovered an unskilled job opening on the old Delaware ferry I took it.

There were steps from the street up to the house now because the hill in the street had been levelled for the new horse-drawn trolley cars, but it hadn’.

Believe it or not, there was a trolley line in which the trolley cars went one way, and the automobiles went the other way.

A few planes were overhead from the naval air station farther north, adding the drone of their engines to a subdued hum of traffic, a ship's horn, the distant clang of electric trolley cars.