hansom-cab

But it was also a place where a grandmother from Yonkers could take her granddaughter for tea in the Palm Court, where a couple of hansom-cab drivers could come in for a beer at the Oak Bar after a day of driving tourists through Central Park.

Evgenia Peretz on the Plaza Peretz, Evgenia 2009

Men drove cars now to the same tick as the old horse-bus and hansom-cab drivers had driven their slipping, sliding, clattering gees.

Over the River 2004

With that he fell from the balcony, bouncing on the stones below like a great ball of india-rubber, and went bounding off towards the corner of the Alhambra, where he hailed a hansom-cab and sprang inside it.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

How can I pluck up courage to take the horse out of my hansom-cab, when I do not know whether my evolutionary watch is only a little fast or the cabman's a little slow?

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

My highly respectable father's proboscis was pure Greek -- Greek so pure, sir, that the late President of the Royal Academy has been known to follow him about London in a hansom-cab from dawn to dewy eve in the hope of catching its outline.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

We drove up home in style, in a hansom-cab, and I knocked three times at the front door without getting an answer.

The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith, George, 1847-1912 1921

And some day I might even ride in a hansom-cab, though I should have to succeed wonderfully to do that.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

Even Central Park seemed smaller than of old, and I couldn't remember which drives Dinky-Dunk and I had taken in the historic old hansom-cab after our equally historic marriage by ricochet.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

Bartley was making a third round of the Square when he heard the far-flung hoof-beats of a hansom-cab horse, driven rapidly.

Alexander's Bridge Willa Sibert Cather 1910

With that he fell from the balcony, bouncing on the stones below like a great ball of india-rubber, and went bounding off towards the corner of the Alhambra, where he hailed a hansom-cab and sprang inside it.

The Man Who Was Thursday 1874-1936 1908