hackney-coaches

Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also glided out of the house.

Les Miserables 2008

They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter.

Les Miserables 2008

She flutters to and fro, avoiding the stand of hackney-coaches, and often pausing in the shadow of the western end of the great quadrangle wall, with her face turned towards the gate.

No Thoroughfare 2007

French, to a lady who could not understand one syllable of his jargon — the mutual hackney-coaches drew up; Madame la Baronne waved to the Captain a graceful French curtsy.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Street, those two hackney-coaches, for the arrival of which you have been praying, trembling, hoping, despairing, swearing — sw —, I beg your pardon, I believe the word is not used in polite company — and transpiring, for the last half-hour.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

She dreamed of numbers, had favourite incantations by which to conjure them: noted the figures made by peels of peaches and so forth, the numbers of houses, on hackney-coaches — was superstitious comme toutes les rimes poetiques.

The Newcomes 2006

We were in one of those Liverpool hackney-coaches in less than a minute, and we cruised about in her upwards of three hours, looking for John.

The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

I thought they could not be going far, as crowds seldom go far, especially at such a rate; so I walked on more lustily than before, passing group after group of the crowd, and almost vying in speed with some of the carriages, especially the hackney-coaches; and, by dint of walking at this rate, the terraces and houses becoming somewhat less frequent as I advanced,

Lavengro 2004

There were still a few hackney-coaches accustomed to stand about the streets, more truly from habit than for use.

The Last Man 2003

I had occasion to observe, both in the streets of Paris and on the roads in its vicinity, that there were but few _private_ carriages to be seen, and those by no means handsome; but the roads are covered with _cabriolets_, of which there are 2,800 in Paris, besides about 2,000 fiacres, or hackney-coaches.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard