hackman
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“I say, young’un, ain’t ye out o’ yer bailiwick?” queried Tim, the hackman, staring at the little girl in the Stagg yard.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
When Tim, the hackman, went into town with his first load he was forewarned by Aunty Rose that he would have company going back.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
Joining forces with him, we no longer shivered before the hackman, nor shrank from the valet de place.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Julian and the hackman went upstairs, and when the boys came down again they each wore a traveling-coat and had a small valise in their hands.
From The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon
After awhile the hackman who had driven the second suspicious man returned to his stand.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Beggars there are none, to the credit of the city be it said; nor is one importuned by hackmen or other public servants; all are ready to serve you, but none to annoy you.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
But mere grandeur of nature has no educating effect upon the soul of man; else, Switzerland would not have supplied Paris with footmen, and the hackmen of Niagara would spare the tourist.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
These cabbies have more nearly the air of our own noble hackmen than any we have seen in England.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various
The place was filled with sailors, steamboat captains and pilots, traders, roisterers, clerks, hackmen, and undescribed characters.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
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