hackman
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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
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
Tim, the hackman, had an accident to his load before he was ready to start from the camp after dinner.
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
Now, you send Tim, the hackman, up after me this afternoon.
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
And street-cars furnish still less room to spare, And hackmen several times have earned their fare.
From City Ballads by Will Carleton
"For," said I, "if you offered that obsolete fraction of a dollar to the turbulent hackmen of our cities, you would meet with offensive demonstrations of contempt."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
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
The remainder of the hackmen quickly pulled off their hats, determined that no one should have the advantage.
From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell
