cab-stand

• “The road began badly with a row of cheap, pretentious, insolvent-looking shops, a public-house, and a cab-stand, but, after an interval of little red villas that were partly hidden amidst shrubbery gardens, broke into a confusedly bright but not unpleasing High Street, shuttered that afternoon and sabbatically still.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Minoret bowed to the great Unknown, wrung Bouvard by the hand, ran downstairs and hastened to a cab-stand which at that time was near the gates of a house since pulled down to make room for the”

  Ursula

• “The people joked at the cab-stand about his appearance, as he took a carriage there, and told the driver to drive him to”

  Vanity Fair

• “He walked down to the cab-stand and opened the rear door of the cab parked there and got in.”

  No Country For Old Men

• “An hour and a half later he escorted her to a cab-stand on the Rue de Rome.”

  Bel Ami

• ““And could you tell me where is - the nearest cab-stand?” he shouted out to me again.”

  The Possessed

• “Next, he politely offered his arm, and led the way round the corner of the crescent, across a square, and into a by-street, which was rendered exceptionally lively by the presence of the local cab-stand.”

  Armadale

• “When he got to the cab-stand, opposite the Melbourne Club, still suspecting he was followed, he hailed a hansom, and drove away in the direction of Spring Street.”

  The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

• “The woman at the bar who served him looked at him wonderingly, staring into his face; and the pot-boy woke himself thoroughly that he might look at Burgo; and the waterman from the cab-stand stared at him; and women who came in for gin looked almost lovingly up into his eyes.”

  Can You Forgive Her?

• “I have said that the hacks on the cab-stand were a sorry lot, and though I had chosen the brute which looked most promising in the whole contingent, I was not long in finding that I had no special reason to be proud of my choice.”

  In Direst Peril

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