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Trolley line   /trˈɑli laɪn/   Listen
noun
Trolley car  n.  (Elec.) A motor car powered by electricity drawn from a trolley, and thus constrained to follow the trolley lines. Trolley line,
(a)
A trolley (f).
(b)
The path along which a trolley car runs.






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"Trolley line" Quotes from Famous Books



... Zocalo, presents an animated scene with the numerous starting and stopping cars on their incessant journey; and the figures of the saints upon the cathedral facade gaze stonily down upon the electric flashes from the trolley line, whilst the native peon and Indian on the cars has not yet ceased wondering what power it ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... ascertained that Jim and his "sister" were strangers, traveling toward New York, and had offered to drive them both to the trolley line in his little car, when the woman of the house reappeared with Lou, and Jim stared with all ...
— Anything Once • Douglas Grant

... together the two drove off rapidly. Into the country, they sped, until at last they came to a lonely turn in a lonely road, somewhat removed from the section that was rapidly being built up as population reached out from the city, but on a single-tracked trolley line. ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... given over to business in one of which a trolley line was allowed, largely for the convenience of the outlying settlements. There really were some very nice stores. There was a fine music hall used for lectures and now and then a play found its way thither. Some seven miles distant was a ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... left the car sped, and after a mile and a half of growing darkness, with woods and scattered farmhouses, the lights of a village began to appear. But it was no village that Leslie knew, and nothing anywhere gave her a clew. A trolley line appeared, however; and after a little a car came along with a name that showed it was going cityward. Leslie decided to follow ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill



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