hansom

• So please call a hansom, and I shall drive there at once. —  A Young Mutineer
• Afterwards I locked up the flat, put the key in my pocket, discovered a hansom--it wasn't easy, but 'Tilda, who comes in to tidy up for me every day, managed it. —  Mary Gray
• Pat whistled for a hansom, and when the two ladies were in he carried out the animal and placed it in front of them, where it created some excitement in its passage through the street Behold Nelly, then, presently seated on the nursery floor, winding up the lamb for Bunny and forgetting all about her beautiful lavender muslin frock. —  Mary Gray
• Then she sighed, as though an immense burden had fallen from her CHAPTER XXIII THE NEWS IN THE WESTMINSTER As Nelly's hansom drew up at her own door another hansom was just turning away from it. —  Mary Gray
• With Mrs. Westlake supporting me on one side and Jacintha on the other, I managed to cross the road to the nearest gate, where a hansom was hailed, and I found myself seated by Mrs. Westlake's side, while Jacintha was perched on her knees. —  Chatterbox, 1905.

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