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
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
The hackman carried it upstairs for them, and Julian, having paid him his price, threw himself into a chair to wait until Jack did the packing.
From The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon
“Most of them is,” the hackman said sententiously.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
But that cranky old hackman gave me a cue: I’ll use the car out here for the people who wish to travel back and forth, or take a drive to certain places.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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
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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 lady remarks, however, that Paris servants can usually read very well, and that hackmen, water-carriers, and porters may frequently be seen reading a classical author while waiting for a customer.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
There was a crowd of hackmen in waiting, all of whom appeared to Sam to be seeing which could talk fastest.
From The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets by Horatio Alger
“Unskilled” includes draymen, hackmen, and teamsters, farm laborers, farmers, fishermen, laborers, and servants.
From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons