After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

Enough trading stamps were collected to buy a 12-passenger station wagon.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

There were umbrella tents, wall tents, cottage tents, station wagon tents, pup tents, Pop tents, Baker tents, tents with exterior frames, camper trailers, travel trailers, and even a few surplus parachutes serving as sunshades over entire family camps.

When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.

The station wagon and the old Plymouth headed east toward Jarrodsville.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

Acey Squire's station wagon.

The station wagon came to a stop a couple of hundred feet in front of him, beside a fenced field.

When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

And then the station wagon and the Ford would seek him out again.

`` Got us an old station wagon.

Then, in 1958, the F94 four-door sedan and station wagon were launched.

These vehicles are often converted full-size station wagons that may or may not feature a traditional landau roof and bars, although in recent years, following the end of the full-size station wagon era, the preference has shifted towards minivans with slide-over landau bar panels for the third row windows.

Holden's next model, the FE, launched in 1956 ; offered in a new station wagon body style dubbed " Station Sedan " in the company's sales literature.

Sales were boosted by exporting the Kingswood sedan, station wagon, and utility body styles to Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago, Pakistan, the Philippines and South Africa in complete knock down form.

After discontinuing the Frontera and Jackaroo models in 2003, Holden was only left with one all-wheel drive model: the Adventra, a Commodore-based station wagon.

The original, Fiat style models included VAZ-2101 sedan and VAZ-2102 station wagon.

In 1984, the VAZ-2104 station wagon completed the line-up.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

The actual term " sport utility vehicle " did not come into wide popular usage until the late 1980s ; many of these vehicles were marketed during their era as station wagons.

Developed under the leadership of AMC's François Castaing and marketed to urban families as a substitute for a traditional car ( and especially station wagons, which were still fairly popular at the time ), the Chrerokee had four-wheel drive in a more manageable size ( compared to the full-size Wagoneer ), as well as a plush interior resembling a station wagon.

Sudbury railway station now forms the terminus of the branch line which is marketed as the Gainsborough Line, with stops at Bures and Chappel and Wakes Colne railway stations, terminating at Marks Tey railway station.

Several companies marketed special receivers that would sound an alarm and automatically deactivate the amateur's transmitter when the monitored broadcast station went off the air.

Station wagons have evolved from their early use as specialized vehicles to carry people and luggage to and from a train station, and have been marketed worldwide.

Having shared antecedents with the British shooting-brake ( originally a wooden-bodied vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game ), station wagons have been marketed as breaks, using the French term ( which is sometimes given fully as break de chasse, literally " hunting break.

With the American digital television transition making most existing portable televisions obsolete and unusable and the current infant and development stage of mobile digital television, along with the need to provide a public service to their viewers and encourage the use of the system, many American television station weather operations cooperate with radio manufacturers and local retail outlets to offer weather radios at discounted pricing to viewers ( especially in active tornado areas ), where the service is often marketed as an essential warning device on par with a smoke detector for home fires.

Both vehicles are narrow, yet tall station wagons styled in a quasi-SUV fashion ( called a crossover utility vehicle or " CUV " by Toyota ) and marketed to a fairly youthful market segment.

It was not until 1969 that a station wagon was actually marketed under the Galaxie name.

A station wagon body-style, marketed as the Lakewood joined the lineup in 1961 with its engine located under the cargo floor and offering 68 ft³ ( 1. 9 m³ ) of cargo room ; 58 ft³ in the main passenger compartment, and another 10 ft³ in the front trunk.

The Greenbrier Sportswagon used the same body as the " Corvan 95 " panel van with the side windows option, but was marketed as a station wagon and was available with trim and paint options similar to the passenger cars.

Ford also marketed version of their Ranchero model, a coupe utility produced between 1957 and 1979 with an open bed like a pickup truck but from a station wagon platform, with simulated woodgrain siding.

In line with this, Vocalo. org will not be marketed as a public radio station, will not broadcast any nationally-produced public radio programs and will not use on-air pledge drives as a funding source.

In addition to the Colonnade hardtop coupe, the Cutlass Supreme was also offered in a four-door Colonnade sedan ( with six-window styling and frameless door windows ) as well as six-and-nine passenger station wagons-the wagons with the woodgrain exterior trim were marketed under the Vista Cruiser nameplate previously used on Oldsmobile's stretched-wheelbase station wagons with raised roof and skylights from 1964 to 1972.

The Tempra saloon was introduced in February 1990 at the Geneva Salon, with the station wagon ( marketed as the " Tempra SW ") arriving two months later in Turin.

The Volkswagen Type 3 ( sold as the Volkswagen 1500 and later the Volkswagen 1600 ) was a compact car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen ( VW ), introduced at the 1961 Frankfurt Motor Show, Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung ( IAA ) and ultimately available in two-door notchback, fastback and station wagon variants.

The Volkswagen Type 4 is a mid-sized car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen of Germany from 1968 to 1974 in two-door and four-door sedan as well as two-door station wagon body styles.

The name was first used when Glenfield railway station was built in 1869 although a village didn't begin to develop until 1881 when the first subdivision of the paddocks were marketed.

In France, a station wagon is marketed as a break, once having been called a break de chasse, literally translated: hunting break.

Lynx also produced 67 hand-built two-door estate / shooting brake / station wagon versions of the XJS marketed under the name of " Lynx Eventer ".

The Renault 21 sedan was launched in early 1986 as the successor to the successful Renault 18, and this was followed a few months later by the seven-seater station wagon, the R21 Nevada, marketed as the Savanna in the United Kingdom.