hackman
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“Nobody will bother you here——” “Not while that dog’s with her, I reckon,” put in Tim, the hackman.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
This was the report Tim, the hackman, had brought in.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
“When we got out of the carriage the hackman took off his hat and said: ‘If the carriage were mine, you shouldn’t pay a cent.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various
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
“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
Car bells jangle, policemen yell their warnings to unwary foot passengers, hackmen screech their demands for patronage, and hurrying crowds move to and fro between the ferries and the city.
From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider
Coach, sir?” cried innumerable hackmen, gathering about them.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
You ought to have seen the hackmen laugh!
From Gypsy's Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The reader is not called upon to bemoan the tribulations of temperance-taverns, the hardships of indiscriminate railroad-carriages, nor the rapacity of New-York hackmen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
