| 单词 | hansom cab |
| 例句 | Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Pedaling down Maxwell Street, I took care to stay away from the hansom cabs and wagons that rushed through the road as though they were racing to see who could mow down the most pedestrians. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was the lamppost, with one arm missing; there was the wreck of the hansom cab; and there was the crowd. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z However, only minutes after we left the neighborhood, Raizel chased down a passing hansom cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Frankie wanted to hail a hansom cab, but instead, I forced the two of us to walk to the nearest tram stop, the way Yakov would have done. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Outside the fairgrounds, I hailed a hansom cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Every day he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and hansom cabs, inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Rain poured down in violent torrents, pummeling the hansom cab’s roof and sending the coachman cursing at the sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Two gentlemen in formal evening dress, both seemingly drunk, enter a hansom cab late one night in July. ‘Blockbuster!’: The strange tale of the best-selling crime novel of the 19th century 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Maybe our collective imagination is recycling images from all those films, with hansom cabs rattling over the cobbles in black and white. The changing face of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z These are moments that might have been glimpsed in the street, from the window of a moving hansom cab, by a device not yet perfected. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z Holmes and Watson have taken a long, strange hansom cab ride through modern times. The televisual Sherlock: The role that made Benedict Cumberbatch a star drove another actor insane 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z In a preamble we're told that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once encountered a hansom cab horse being whipped so he flung himself on to its neck to stop the brutality and thereafter went mad. Berlin film festival ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:49Z A team of stagehands and handlers attached Lord’s hansom cab, and Musetta and her paramour loaded into it, with their prop shopping packages. Enter Stage Left: A Donkey Debuts at the Met Opera 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Leonard’s chosen genre is the Victorian mystery, whose iconography — sulfurous fog, hansom cabs — had already been fixed in Conan Doyle’s lifetime. Review | Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z This explains their titchiness: because they were on the public highway, the shelters could not be any bigger than the area occupied by a hansom cab and its horse. T Magazine: Fare Grounds 2012-11-28T16:00:38Z Donald Pepper formed a special connection with a retired Philadelphia hansom cab horse. A ‘magical’ treatment for seniors with dementia: Horse therapy 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Both shows update the timeline of their source material to modern day, trading hansom cabs for subways and limousines. The case of the missing Sherlock Holmes films: UCLA and Robert Downey Jr. investigate 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The car cut into Central Park, passing a hansom cab, whose driver shouted, “You’re going against traffic!” The Night We Landed on the Moon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Previously, the drivers of the horse-drawn hansom cabs had to sit in the open waiting for fares, as they were not allowed to leave their cabs unattended. Listed buildings: New additions mark 70 years of preservation - BBC News 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z New York City’s taxi industry grew out of the horse-drawn hansom cabs of the 1800s, according to Graham Hodges, the author of “Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.” Yellow Cab, Long a Fixture of City Life, Is for Many a Thing of the Past 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z In the 19th century, it housed horses and hansom cabs. Murals and mosaics enliven an already bustling Blagden Alley 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Being so late, he probably hailed a hansom cab to take him to his workshop. Louis Le Prince, who shot the world's first film in Leeds - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Holmes is an icon of the Victorian metropolis, a place of horse-drawn hansom cabs, dark corners, gaslight - and fog. Exhibition probes the mystery of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Tourists snap pictures of the hansom cabs and the drivers in top hats, and the atmosphere is one of romantic obsolescence. Let New York City’s Horses Work, Too! 2014-01-27T18:07:48Z In just ten lines a man tells the story of waiting in a hansom cab with the object of his desire while the rain pours down. How can you talk interestingly about the weather? 2012-06-06T08:45:05Z We also know that a P. and O. steamer is a means of conveyance almost as generally used by heroes and heroines of English fiction as a hansom cab. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z London, moreover, is rendered habitable by hansom cabs. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Yet when he was distant a house or so from No. 14 he started guiltily at a very ordinary occurrence; at nothing more than the arrival of a hansom cab at the door. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z And the ostrich who draws a hansom cab, and the man who beats the boy with a stick? Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Some of the hansom cab drivers with bits of black ribbon or stuff on their whips, and everybody looks grave. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z When Callon in the hansom cab had said to her, "Come South," her first swift reflection had been, "Pamela will be safe in England." The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z I hailed you from a hansom cab once outside Lloyd's bank in Plymouth. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z He was still among his papers--though expecting the breakfast-gong with every minute, when a hansom cab driven at full speed stopped at the door. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z You cannot play scalp hunters with the mechanical ostrich indissolubly welded to a hansom cab. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z "A hansom cab," replied Dora, laughing, "is much more convenient, goes faster, costs less, and gives you much less trouble." Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z At the door she sent her carriage home, and when the performance was over she took a hansom cab. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Charnock was not distressed, because he saw a hansom cab waiting for him at the Customs, though how the hansom was to pass up those narrow cobbled streets he could not think. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z The hansom cab as improved by subsequent alterations, nevertheless, took and held the fancy of the public. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Then he left the bag in a hansom cab. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He took a hansom cab and bade the man drive him to Mount Street,—through Mount Street and so back again. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z A hansom cab drove past me just as I crossed the road to go out of the gate to the coffee-stall. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z After campaigning for decades, animal rights advocates are gaining support for legislation that would ban the hansom cabs, including endorsements from mayoral candidates and celebrities. Campaign Gains to Make Central Park Carriage Rides Horseless 2011-12-08T03:29:56Z And a little hansom cab and horse in diamonds as a brooch. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z At seven in the evening two hansom cabs drew up before the door to allow four men to enter the house—also by the area. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Blessings on that London hansom cab, its horse, and knowing driver. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z The message was received by Mr. Mudge, who read it, took up his hat, and jumping into a hansom cab, drove westward with all speed. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z I have heard of a man Who rowed In a winning Cambridge boat And is now driving A hansom cab. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z There was a hansom cab waiting, and as I gave my breathless order, “Great Ormond Street,” the horse started, and panting with excitement, I thought I had never gone so slowly before. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Through its arched portals one might drive a hansom cab, and tradition says that the feat has been accomplished. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z I sent her the very biggest bouquets, such as occupied a whole hansom cab each; love letters, their weight barely covered by eight stamps; and valentines that would only go by parcels delivery. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z At red lights, you get overtaken by clip-clopping horses pulling hansom cabs. City Room: The Guilty Pleasure of a Drive Through Central Park 2011-07-14T21:53:38Z And before I had time to smile at the quip I would be dragging my friend off the roadway on to the pavement to escape the oncoming tramcar, bicycle or hansom cab. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z But the war-whoop of the hansom cab fiend athirst for—bones, is nothing in the way of a test compared with the wholly unexpected receipt of an objectionable and unwelcome letter. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z In case the increasing storm should interfere with the cars, there was always a hansom cab at a nearby stable. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z After a while he looked at his watch, hesitated, and finally hailed a hansom cab. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z It is a hansom cab that follows them—the same you saw just now. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z And, oh, glorious, unmatchable Boat Race day: how we all cared, how everyone cared, the whole of London cared, the costermongers, the drivers of four-wheelers, those delicious hansom cabs, everyone cared. Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker 2011-03-23T00:06:01Z A hansom cab had come to a stop beside the pavement, and an old man carrying a handbag was fiercely abusing the cabman, who sat on his perch the image of bewilderment. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z While we were driving to the Museum in a hansom cab, I remember that a somewhat ridiculous contretemps took place. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z For just as she had rung the bell a hansom cab drove up to the door, and a tall, dark-complexioned young man leaped out. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Your servant, in a hansom cab, can fetch the stuff, and be back in fifteen minutes. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z She replied: "Did you come up to the house in a hansom cab?" Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z “One wandered about in it like a maggot in cheese; it was not a hansom cab, to be got into, or out of, at dinner-time.” The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z In fact, the two four-wheelers, three hansom cabs, several dog-carts, and one open landau suggested rather a picnic amid the tombs. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z He raised his cane as a hansom cab came by, got in, and was driven to the Channel Hotel, where he paid and dismissed the man. A Double Knot Driving home with my old man in a hansom cab. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Why should they not have dinner on a balcony over the river, and after dinner drive all the way home in a hansom cab? Sinister Street, vol. 1 Take a hansom cab, and drive as far, say, as Whitechapel. The Missioner Her mother was suddenly aware of Jenny's cross-examinations, which she had been answering mechanically with thoughts far away with a florid man in a jingling hansom cab. Carnival Here come pouring down Park Street on the maid�n a rush of broughams, neat buggies, the lightest of gigs, trim office brownberrys, shining victorias, and a sprinkling of veritable hansom cabs. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The rattle of a hansom cab was heard at last—at last, Mary thought—in reality a few minutes before the time appointed; and the poet and Mr. Heron entered. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Quite astonished by her own success, Flossy slipped a coin into his hand and made him call her a hansom cab. A Life Sentence A Novel She poured out her words hurriedly, and only the restraint that comes with a seat in a hansom cab within full view of the populace of Camden Town prevented her bursting into hysterical tears. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons Soon they were driving in a hansom cab towards the railway station. Carnival Oliver sedulously averted his eyes and hailed a passing hansom cab. Brooke's Daughter A Novel One of my ambitions is to drive in a hansom cab. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 There were two huge sows—O, brutes of animals that would have broken down a hansom cab—four smaller pigs, two barrels of beef, and a horror of vegetables and fowls. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) As a rule, complete surrender meant less striving and contriving, a better establishment, and a freer use of hansom cabs in place of omnibuses. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography I’ve been run over by a hansom cab, and I’m all buggy, but I ain’t hurt, and this gentleman brought me home. Berenice Actually, I'm very contented in my windmill; it is just the sort of warm, sweet-smelling spot I was looking for, a long, long way from newspapers, hansom cabs, and all that fog!… Letters from my Windmill And without doubt he tasted the wonder of a city of automobiles still clinging to the hansom cab. Westward with the Prince of Wales Often he thought he would rather "break stones on the road," drive a hansom cab, or even go on the stage, than be the superfluous secretary of such a dull, though dear nonentity. The Twelfth Hour The driver of a hansom cab shouted aloud as he jerked his horse to its haunches to avoid running over me. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Of a yellow, balmy morning, with a languid breeze stirring the curtains in the open windows of the street, a hansom cab, drawn by a lean gray beast, appeared near the curate's door. The Mother You who call yourself Sartoris, are the little cripple of the black hansom cab, you others are the rogues who posed as Countess de la Moray and General Gastang. The Slave of Silence Finally, one night, after one of the supper-parties, a hansom cab driver who had been ordered to call for one of the guests arrived at the house drunk and created a scene. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon An unusual noise in the street—that of a hansom cab rattling up to the door—startled him. The Twelfth Hour I’ve heard that your father wanted to drive a hansom cab for a life job when he was your age. Sunny Boy in the Country “Then,” said Aristide, advancing dramatically to the picture, “I take it under my arm, I put it in a hansom cab, and I go with it back to Languedoc.” The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol She recollected now with vivid force that on the night of Sir Charles's disappearance a little crooked man in a hansom cab had been the directing party in the outrage. The Slave of Silence To this hour I have sudden vague rushes of terror, even when riding in a hansom cab, which are perfectly unreasonable but quite insurmountable. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Now we were back in the hansom cab bowling through the madly dancing snowflakes. Explorers of the Dawn The strange looking vehicle, with the coachman sitting on a box at the back of a hood that covered us, I learned later was a hansom cab. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille There is Mr Poker in a hansom cab outside, and ready to go with you to the bank at once, as the matter is rather pressing. An Old Man's Love One does not usually attach a romantic interest to a well-dressed military man in a hansom cab during broad daylight in London. The Slave of Silence More than a week later while I was walking down Fifth avenue, a hansom cab stopped at the curb beside me, and Saberevski's face looked out. Princess Zara He hurriedly passed through the group of children who had gathered to look at the not too familiar spectacle of a hansom cab waiting at the door of Miss Husted's establishment. The Music Master Novelized from the Play In passing Berners Street, a hansom cab swept round the corner, its dashing driver smoking a cigar in sublime self-satisfaction, and looking carelessly right and left for a “fare.” Fighting the Flames I remember once being driven in a hansom cab down a street that turned out to be a cul de sac, and brought us bang up against a wall. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The fair woman said nothing, and the dark gentleman walked into the street, where a hansom cab waited for him. The Mark Of Cain Ericson liked tearing round in hansom cabs, and could hardly ever be induced to make use of one of the hotel broughams. The Dictator I heard myself saying, just as if he had had on a frock-coat and top-hat, and had stopped a hansom cab for me in Bond Street. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon “Couldn’t we ride as well in a boat as in a hansom cab, Mr Gregory?” he said. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle "If you had been better-looking, I'd have called you a hansom cab." Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers This was occasioned by an impromptu race between two omnibuses and a hansom cab, which, having been all temporarily deserted by their rightful Jehus, had been boarded by three amateur charioteers and set in motion. The Master of the Shell Then the military butler was sent for a hansom cab, and Sarrasin and his wife were soon spinning on their way to St. James's Park. The Dictator Looking round, they saw a boy with disordered dress and unsteady gait attempting to cross the road just as a hansom cab was bearing down at full speed on the place where he stood. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life “Widgeon, run round the corner and call a couple of hansom cabs.” Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle Mina supplied Harry's address—ostensibly for the purpose of a letter; nothing else was necessary but a hansom cab. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House The other party was the pilot of a hansom cab that had climbed down off his perch and was layin' on with his whip. Torchy As I walked through the park towards Isabella's house on the evening of the dinner-party, Devar's hansom cab dashed past me and stopped a few yards farther on. Dross He had sprung from the carriage to a hansom cab almost before the train had pulled up, and in another moment was clattering over the stones towards the hospital. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life She is praising the hansom cab by theme and theory, but her soul is still a child by the sea, picking up shells. The Napoleon of Notting Hill In front of the house was a hansom cab drawn by a disgusted-looking horse. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers The contrast between this niggardliness and the midnight brilliance of up-town Broadway was inevitable, and the jolting Tuscarora House free 'bus came readily into unflattering comparison with a certain rubber-tired hansom cab. The Henchman Having made my report I withdrew, and at the corner of the street was nearly run over by a private hansom cab, at that time a fashionable vehicle among men about town. Dross His back now was turned to the white clouds; he was facing the high stone wall and the tops of the hansom cabs. The Prelude to Adventure The peculiarity of these fine though feminine lines," continued "Thunderbolt," "is, as we have said, that they praise the hansom cab by comparing it to the shell, to a natural thing. The Napoleon of Notting Hill When Charles looked at him he was somehow reminded of a broken-down thorough-bred in a hansom cab. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers In little more than two weeks Dowie descended from her train in the London station and took a hansom cab which carried her through the familiar streets to Eaton Square. Robin They were given an inkling of what was going forward, and some dropped off, like the less resolute guests in Mr. Stevenson's adventure of the hansom cabs. Historical Mysteries The tops of the hansom cabs in the road beyond rose above the wall, and he could hear, muffled with distance, shots from the 'Varsity firing range. The Prelude to Adventure "I used that five pounds," continued the other, "in giving no less than forty little London boys rides in hansom cabs." The Napoleon of Notting Hill The sequence of which proceedings was, that a hansom cab drew up at the far corner of the little stone-flagged court in the Temple between four and five that afternoon. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance "The only thing I'm really frightened of is a hansom cab," she affirmed. Berry And Co. Or sometimes comes a hansom cab, Just as I near the crossing; The “cabby” gives his reins a grab, The steed is wildly tossing. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses "The first was that you had come down from London by the newspaper train this morning, and the second was that you had received your injuries in a hansom cab accident." The Betrayal The hansom cabs were called the gondolas of London. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18 At this moment a hansom cab rattled up, and a gentleman got out and rang our front-door bell. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men A gigantic specimen was accordingly procured and brought to the Broad Street entrance in a hansom cab. Berry And Co. It is made on the same plan as the glass front of the new hansom cabs which have been introduced into this country within the last few years. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 49, October 14, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls There was a rush of carriage-wheels without, a hansom cab whirled up to the door, and a tall young man leaped out. The Baronet's Bride Mrs. Pennell in this little book describes a collision on the old Kent Road with the driver of a hansom cab, who sat watching their extrication scowling. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 He thought of the Avenue he had known, with its long lines of hansom cabs, its dashing broughams and coupés with jingling harness, livened footmen, everything sprucely up-to-date. His Family It was a very wild night, as Mr. Parker observed four times: he only hoped that no one would require a hansom cab. The Necromancers Or they would have me drive with them in these dangerous open chariots,—me, that never rode in a hansom cab without feeling nervous. In the Wrong Paradise And yet, dear mother, after the performances, I myself saw the noble steed trotting most good-naturedly in rear of a hansom cab. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 You might find out where Itu was the night before last; and if you should chance to see a hansom cab there—number 22,481—have a good look at it. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman The car changes from Thirty-fourth Street were too many and too perplexing; for the first time in his life Hedger took a hansom cab for Washington Square. Youth and the Bright Medusa He said, 'You will take a hansom cab and you will drive to Claridge's Hotel. The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora If he went out to shoot in evening clothes, a crush hat, and a hansom cab, the chances are that he would make an example of himself and come to some untimely end. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series And after that Augusta went and changed her dress, and then came the hurried good-byes; and, to escape observation, they drove off in a hansom cab amidst a shower of old shoes. Mr. Meeson's Will Presently a hansom cab came rattling down the street and pulled up at the door. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life He leaned forward as if he were going to tell the driver to return, but before he could do so the lodge-keeper opened the great gate, and the hansom cab rattled under the archway. A Mere Accident It might literally be said in 1900 that the Whig Party and the Tory Party came to Parliament in a hansom cab. The Crimes of England And when I turned from Go-by Street which was just the same as ever, the first thing that I saw was a taximeter running into a hansom cab. Tales of Three Hemispheres And there in that hansom cab we will leave them. Mr. Meeson's Will The steady procession of motors, taxis, and hansom cabs made its slow way uptown. Bambi Such were my reflections on the way to Richmond in a hansom cab. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman There were two huge sows - oh, brutes of animals that would have broken down a hansom cab - four smaller pigs, two barrels of beef, and a horror of vegetables and fowls. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 Two specks of light appeared on the desolate plain; a man in a hansom cab was driving alone in North China. Tales of Three Hemispheres At last the roaring stream of hansom cabs and the rush of hurrying feet became lower and more intermittent as the pleasure-seekers passed on their way to their stations or their homes. Tales of Terror and Mystery Mrs. Worthington came in during the course of the morning to find her standing before her window looking out at the Thames, the Embankment, the hansom cabs themselves, with an absolutely serious absorption. The Shuttle It is a good thing to harness two horses to a cart; but it is not a good thing to try and turn two hansom cabs into one four-wheeler. Heretics One dog was on the ground when we arrived, having come out in a hansom cab with his trainer. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories The little mirrors in the hansom cabs had helped him most in this endeavour. The Market-Place "There will soon be very few hansom cabs left," said Mrs. Elliot. The Voyage Out When the train slackened its speed at the platform of the station, he got up, reaching down his valise and leaving the carriage, strode to the nearest hansom cab, waving the porter aside. The Shuttle I will humble myself to a hansom cab. Heretics Then came, slowly around the corner of the shabby street and toward me, a hansom cab. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories A hansom cab was waiting at the entrance to the flats. The Avenger A taxicab," Mr. Parker explained, "is of no use to me—of no more use than a hansom cab. An Amiable Charlatan He wore a fifty-candle-power stone in his shirt-front, a silk hat that shone like a new hansom cab, and a Prince Albert coat that came below his knees. The Under Dog Two men were driving in a hansom cab westward through Cockspur Street. Roden's Corner The footman was despatched in a hansom cab, with instructions to take the telegram to the head office of the Submarine Telegraph Company, and there to arrange prepayment of the reply. With Edged Tools A few steps farther brought her to a stand of hansom cabs. The Heavenly Twins While she was on the ground a hansom cab ran into the car. The Woman with the Fan She was taken about to parties also, and to the opera—and very often there were parties at the old lady's house— carriage-company, and gentleman in furred coats, who came in hansom cabs. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution He knew so many people that Piccadilly was a work of considerable effort, and it is difficult to bow gracefully from a hansom cab. Roden's Corner They were now going by Clapham Common with an unbroken stream of vehicles of every sort—coaches with outriders, landaus, hansom cabs, omnibuses, costers' spring carts and barrows. The Christian A Story The hansom cab with one horse is equally cheap, but not so easy to get in and out of. Manners and Social Usages We always found that if he talked to her a while of higher things it diverted her mind from hansom cabs. My Man Jeeves My enunciation of the merits of a hansom cab had been always made when it was the right way up. Tremendous Trifles The hansom cab containing these two men pulled up jerkily at the door of No. 9, Cambridge Terrace. Roden's Corner They were in a hansom cab driving across London in the direction of Bartimaeus's Hospital. The Christian A Story Very faintly the clanging note of trams, the clatter of a hansom cab, the imperative call of some bell came to him. Fortitude It is a passion with her to ride in hansom cabs, sir. My Man Jeeves So to open a new chapter in my life I got into a hansom cab. Tremendous Trifles I would tumble his unconscious form into a hansom cab, and hold him prisoner until daylight. In the Fog At length the commissionaire appeared at the door and whistled, and a hansom cab rattled up to the end of the court. The Christian A Story "Hans says the greatest man in London may get into a hansom cab." Daniel Deronda His own account of the accident was that he had dreamt that Mr. Gladstone was pursuing him in a hansom cab, and in trying to escape he had tumbled off the bed. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 I do not need to dwell on the essential romance of the hansom cab—that one really noble modern thing which our age, when it is judged, will gravely put beside the Parthenon. Tremendous Trifles In those days Baron Martin and I met once a year, he on the Bench and I in court, with a hansom cab waiting outside ready to start for the Derby. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) The maid was answering "Yes" to each of these questions when a hansom cab came rattling up to the front of the house, and the old lady leaped out of her seat. The Christian A Story I might drive a hansom cab or an omnibus, better men than I have done worse. At Love's Cost In July, 1893, a tiny child was playing in the middle of Stamford Street when a hansom cab came dashing along over the smooth wood paving. Beneath the Banner It seemed to me that the hansom cab simply turned over on top of me, like an enormous hood or hat. Tremendous Trifles Despite the grand drawing-room, despite the rich rustle of her grey silk dress, this great lady peeped from behind the curtain, and saw a hansom cab. The Grey Lady And then all night to hear the grinding of the Atlantic upon the rocks instead of hansom cabs and footmen whistling for motor cars. Jacob's Room In another minute we were once more traversing the streets of London,—three in a hansom cab. The Beetle A hansom cab offers peculiar facilities for the aforesaid process of ingratiation. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel But although I had always realised all these good qualities in a hansom cab, I had not experienced all the possibilities, or, as the moderns put it, all the aspects of that vehicle. Tremendous Trifles Our friend of the dinner, kindly put at our disposal a hansom cab which he owned, but this luxury we declined with thanks, fearing a repetition of his “bill-by-invitation.” Spinifex and Sand Suddenly she heard the rattle of wheels, and rousing herself from her reverie, she saw a hansom cab at the gate, and M. Vandeloup standing on the pavement paying the driver. Madame Midas She thought of New York, of the great unknown ocean, of London—London to Julia meant fog, hansom cabs, and crossings that must be swept. The Story of Julia Page He might be too poor to parade a lot of hansom cabs around, but he was too proud, to say the least, to ride in 'em when some one else paid. The Pit Let me, therefore, explain how I felt when I fell out of a hansom cab for the first and, I am happy to believe, the last time. Tremendous Trifles A hansom cab is better than any carriage you ever rode in, with soft cushions to lean against and little looking-glasses to look at yourself in, and, somehow, you don't hear the wheels. In Homespun That he had made some startling revelation was certain, and Fitzgerald felt sure that it was in connection with the hansom cab murder case. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Think of our day in Chicago, Ju, and the day we took a hansom cab through Central Park—and were afraid the driver wasn't sober! The Story of Julia Page I came down here with your brother in his hansom cab. The Duke's Children My particular hansom cab was modern in these two respects; it was also very modern in the fact that it came to grief. Tremendous Trifles I waved my umbrella and I got into a hansom cab. In Homespun So at last the hansom cab mystery was to be cleared up. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab There, in his hansom cab, the invalid can go—the poor, sad child of misfortune—and insert his nose between the railings, and breathe the pure, health—giving air of the country and of heaven. Mark Twain's Speeches Silverbridge had mounted a private hansom cab in which he could be taken about rapidly,—and, as he said himself, without being shut up in a coffin. The Duke's Children Kippers, for instance, and Free Trade, and front gardens, and individual liberty, and the Elizabethan drama, and hansom cabs, and cricket, and Mr. Will Crooks. Tremendous Trifles Close to where she was stood two hansom cabs. Beatrice After your departure from Melbourne every one said, 'The hansom cab tragedy is at an end, and the murderer will never be discovered.' The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Having thus earned his salary by half-past four o'clock he got into a hansom cab and had himself driven to Porchester Terrace. The Last Chronicle of Barset A hansom cab was waiting at the door, but Lord Gerald still delayed. The Duke's Children Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to the house in Winchester Square. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 A hansom cab rattled down the High Street; Hilary strained his ears after the failing clatter of hoofs and bell. Fraternity He deposed: I am a cabman, living in Collingwood, and usually drive a hansom cab. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab He was still among his papers—though momentarily awaiting the breakfast-gong, when a hansom cab driven at full speed stopped at the door. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels He loved his haunts, his houses, his habits, and even his hansom cabs. The Education of Henry Adams I never get into a hansom cab any more that I don't expect to see the horse fly up into the air. The Man in Lower Ten For indeed, while they were talking, another hansom cab had dashed up behind the one already waiting, and Dr. Herbert Warner, leaving a companion in the cab, had carefully deposited himself on the pavement. Manalive Whereas, on Friday, the 27th day of July, the body of a man, name unknown, was found in a hansom cab. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab It might come anywhere, in a field, in a hansom cab, looking at a sunset, smoking a cigarette. The Club of Queer Trades Society had no unity; one wandered about in it like a maggot in cheese; it was not a hansom cab, to be got into, or out of, at dinner-time. The Education of Henry Adams I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Our coachman, all but run into by a hansom cab driven by a surly old fellow of patriarchal appearance, remarked upon the danger of allowing horses out in charge of bits of boys. Paul Kelver, a Novel That is the man," he said to himself, "who got into the hansom cab, and murdered Whyte; there's no doubt of it! The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Later, on an anniversary, she was taken by her mother through the fog in a hansom cab, and given a large bunch of bright, sweet-scented flowers to lay upon his tomb. Night and Day There never was a hansom cab made that would hold a fat man comfortably unless he left the doors open, and that makes him feel undressed. Cobb's Anatomy "So she takes it out in hansom cabs." The New Machiavelli On arriving home at a quarter-past eleven, we found a hansom cab, which had been waiting for me for two hours with a letter. Diary of a Nobody "Why, I should think that a hansom cab in a public street would be very unsafe." The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Nothing, however, turned up, and I was beginning to think that Whyte had abandoned his purpose, when I heard that he had been murdered in the hansom cab. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab "I suppose," he said, leaning back in his chair, and watching the wreaths of blue smoke curling from his cigar, "I suppose you know all the ins and the outs of the hansom cab murder?" The Mystery of a Hansom Cab "I mean that Mr. Oliver Whyte was murdered in a hansom cab." The Mystery of a Hansom Cab He little knew how prophetic were his words, for on that same night he met his death in the hansom cab. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab The rest sat waiting his return, and chatted about the curious end of the hansom cab mystery, when, in about ten minutes, Calton rushed in hurriedly and closed the door after him quickly. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab "Well, do you know," he said, gravely fixing in his eyeglass, "they have found out the name of the fellow who was murdered in the hansom cab." The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Brian Fitzgerald was arrested at a few minutes past three o'clock, and by five all Melbourne was ringing with the news that the perpetrator of the now famous hansom cab murder had been caught. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab The hansom cab murder had been placed in his hands for solution, and he was trying to think how he should make a beginning. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab At the inquest held on the body found in the hansom cab the following articles taken from the deceased were placed on the table:— 1. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab "And now," said Calton, looking at him, "do you remember the hansom cab murder, which caused such a sensation some months ago?" The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Melbourne society was greatly agitated over the hansom cab murder. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab "Look here, Brown," said the lawyer, "do you remember on that Thursday night when the hansom cab murder took place if any letters were waiting here for Mr. Fitzgerald?" 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