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cabman

[kab-muhn] / ˈkæb mən /


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One of the two getaway drivers was the cabman James Fitzharris, known as Skin-the-Goat, whom readers of “Ulysses” will recognize.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2021

Anton Chekhov wrote an entire short story called Toska about a cabman who recently lost his son and searches for someone to talk to about his grief.

From The Guardian Jul. 27, 2018

Few minutes later the cabman burst in, cried that his dream had come true.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the morning of the race the cabman told Mr. Hader that he had dreamed Commander III came in second.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it was off, he looked younger and nicer and more like a countryman and less like a London cabman.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “The one thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen have it; the merchants have it; the journals have it.”

From The Guardian Jul. 24, 2017

These tourists, the story goes, inundated the city with complaints about the ineptitude of its cabmen, prompting authorities to institute a more demanding licensing process.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2014

Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators large concessions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the desperate regular cabmen swooped down on another minicab, again in Belgrave Square.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would think he had discovered a new nomadic tribe in the cabmen of New York.

From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks




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