hackman
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Tim, the hackman, was a true weather prophet.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
Tim, the hackman, says it is bound to snow soon, and the frost has burned ’most all the grass.”
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
While the hackman was away, Rachel turned to Mrs. James and spoke.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
The story lost nothing in the telling when Tim, the hackman, and Carolyn May both related it at the Stagg homestead.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
“Pitcher of George Washington!” murmured Tim, the hackman, staring at her wide-eyed.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
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
This is one of the simplest principles in homely every-day criticism, serving truth-seekers, wherever wordy war rages, whether among statesmen or hackmen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
The loquacious hackmen fell back as if by magic.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
But the young hackmen terrified her with their hard, bold eyes and cruel, tobacco-stained mouths.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
He answered them all courteously, showing a manly composure in doing so, that served to calm the fever-heat into which many had been thrown by the stories of the two hackmen.
From That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green
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