"Trolley" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... afternoon the old miner touched Scorrier's arm, and said: "There he is—there's my boy!" And he departed slowly, wheeling the body on a trolley. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... blocks over Clay Street hill, from Kearny to Leavenworth. Later it was extended four blocks to the west. From this beginning the cable-roads spread over most of the city and around the world. With the development of the electric trolley they were largely displaced except on steep grades, where they still perform an important function. Mr. Hallidie was a public-spirited citizen and an influential regent of the University ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... any little tenderness I may have passed by. Put it in your daily thought book, honey, forevermore I am going to remember that if at the time we'd use the strength in doing, that we consume afterwards being sorry we didn't do, life would run on an easy trolley. ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... a car fifty miles the way I would about getting on the trolley car at home," said ...
— The Boy Scout Automobilists - or, Jack Danby in the Woods • Robert Maitland
... with a central figure of the great age that saw the invention and introduction in practical form of the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the electric light, the electric railway, the electric trolley-car, the storage battery, the electric motor, the phonograph, the wireless telegraph; and that the influence of these on the world's affairs has not been excelled at any time by that of any other corresponding advances in the arts and sciences. ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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