Hansom

Examples

• As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• That young tutor is an interesting fellow: we had some awfully good talk after dinner about books and things, he threw out tentatively in the hansom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Under the Georgian porch she paused again, scanning the street for a hansom. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my new acquaintance to Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She explains that by the difference between a 'bus and a hansom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Oh, thanks, she stammered; and at that moment her eye caught a hansom drifting down Madison Avenue, and she hailed it with a desperate gesture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And my words were true, for shortly after eight a hansom dashed up to the door and our friend got out of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, missus,' said he, 'I ha seen the lady, and she were young and hansom. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The resources of New York are rather meagre, he said; but I'll find a hansom first, and then we'll invent something. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In Oxford Street we picked up a hansom and drove to an address in Hampstead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Fisher drew Lily toward the hansom with friendly authority. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Veneering then says to Mrs Veneering, 'We must work,' and throws himself into a Hansom cab. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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