hackman
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The hackman was struggling up-stairs with the trunk, Mrs. Gano bidding him have a care of the paper and the balustrade.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
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
Tim, the hackman, was a true weather prophet.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
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
While his grandmother was paying the hackman, the child discovered that the seats of these chairs lifted up in a miraculous manner.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
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
The row of hackmen and hotel porters stand there, in gloomy silent defiance of the rapidly approaching end of things, each holding a sign bearing the name of some hotel.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan
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
"I guess that's about right," said Sam, agreeably surprised with the smallness of the charge in comparison with the extortionate demands of New York hackmen.
From Sam's Chance And How He Improved It by Horatio Alger
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
