hackney cab

She preferred to walk or to take a hackney cab.

It was late enough so that only the occasional carriage or hackney cab passed by.

There have been different makes and types of hackney cab through the years, including:

She'd never been in a hackney cab.

The act of requesting a hackney cab to stop is also termed 'hailing'.

This usage stems from the hackney cabs or coaches that could be provided by a livery stable.

The Peugeot E7 is a purpose built hackney cab.

A man, seeing her distress from a window, helped the inexperienced Princess find a hackney cab, in which she was conveyed to her mother's house.

I gazed down at hackney cabs, joggers, treetops, the works, all framed by classic New York buildings.

He would have run if he could, but entered the hackney cab he'd left waiting at the end of the lane and was driven decorously away.

It has meant an ascetic existence for Wilson, who is to protest politics what the Hackney cab is to public transport.

Dr. Field considered this to be a sensible plan, and he told Simon to go out and whistle tor a hackney cab.

Finally, her mother and sister were ready to leave and, outside the shop on Bond Street, Bridget hailed a hackney cab.

Black Cab (hackney cab)

When initially told that his horses could not be ready at such short notice, William is supposed to have said, "Then I will go in a hackney cab!"

The first thing he saw when he came out of the station was an antiquated sign on a lamppost saying, 'Stand for 6 licensed hackney cabs'.

The hackney cab came alongWhitehall and turned intoDowning Street , stopping in front of Number 10.

In front of the Pennsylvania Station there was a long line of dilapidated hackney cabs, each in the charge of a Negro driver.

Examples include 'Strong thong', 'hackney cab vs acne lad' and 'mop gear'.

The shortfall can be measured by the number of hackney cabs, taxis available only via telephone, said John Evans, an economist with the Irish Competition Authority.

When the hackney cab drew up outside the publisher's office on Albemarle Street, Mr. Quinnell was standing outside, bending over to lock the door.

Miss Tox had great experience in hackney cabs, and her starting in one was generally a work of time, as she was systematic in the preparatory arrangements.

So Mr Pecksniff, in a hackney cab, was rattling over Holborn stones, in quest of Mrs Gamp.

They squeeze into the Hackney cab, telling the talkative driver that they are down for the Pogues gig, which will take place in a tent in Finsbury Park.

A long line of hackney cabs is permanently stationed in front of the hotel but Nordhoff suggested that if Emma was game we walk to a restaurant called Welcher's.