hackney

• After dinner to church again So home and with Sir W. Pen took a hackney, and he and I to Old Street, to a brew-house there, to see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is very ill in bed of a fever, got, I believe, by the fright the Parliament have put him into, of late. —  Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668
• To that end I called a hackney-coach, not greatly caring, I confess it, to be seen in broad daylight in London streets with such an astonishing pair of guys as poor old Ruffiano and his friend The count was at home, and, receiving us at once, heard the story with an excitement equal to that of the narrator. —  In Direst Peril
• They complied with his request, and then the Major desired Timothy to call a hackney-coach. —  Japhet, in Search of a Father
• I recollected myself, and calling a hackney-coach, gave orders to be driven to the Piazza, Covent Garden Piazza, Common Garden," said the waterman, "why that ban't an 'otel for the like o' you, master. —  Japhet, in Search of a Father
• I was not content to let him go: But presently we called a hackney-coach, and myself and him, and major Tasker went, and carried that money to Mr Tryon. —  State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)

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