cabman
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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
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On the morning of the race the cabman told Mr. Hader that he had dreamed Commander III came in second.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Last week the desperate regular cabmen swooped down on another minicab, again in Belgrave Square.
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He would think he had discovered a new nomadic tribe in the cabmen of New York.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks