cabman

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

Every morning for a long time the same cabman had taxied Julius Hader, 42, from his home on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn to his restaurant on Pitkin Avenue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Hader told the cabman all about his ticket on Commander III.

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

For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were not nice sentries, either, like those on the Rock, who stand where you can see them, and who challenge you drowsily, like cabmen, and make the empty streets less lonely than otherwise.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis