hackman
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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 Robins, Elizabeth
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 Endicott, Ruth Belmore
The hackman waiting for his fare consumes his leisure time perusing the paper.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.
Pavel hailed the first hackman he came across.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
The hackman pulled the horses up alongside the step in front of the first roadhouse.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
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
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
She never forgot the hackmen in severe weather.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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 Green, Anna Katharine
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 Morgan, Wallace
