hackney-coachman

The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman.

Les Miserables 2008

Thrifty, who is good, wise, just, and owes no man a penny, turns from a beggar, haggles with a hackney-coachman, or denies a poor relation, and I doubt which is the most selfish of the two.

Vanity Fair 2006

This invitation was, after a minute or two, accepted by the passengers of the chariot: the hackney-coachman promising to drive them to

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Meanwhile, although the hackney-coachman drove on rapidly, yet the party within seemed to consider it was a long distance from

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The fourteen gentlemen holding the luggage, here burst out and laughed very rudely indeed; and the only person who seemed disappointed was, I thought, the hackney-coachman.

Burlesques 2006

The very valet was ashamed of mentioning the address to the hackney-coachman before the hotel waiters, and promised to instruct him when they got further on.

Vanity Fair 2006

The fourteen gentlemen holding the luggage, here burst out and laughed very rudely indeed; and the only person who seemed disappointed was, I thought, the hackney-coachman.

Cox's Diary 2006

I wish it were a declared gout, which is the distemper of a gentleman; whereas the rheumatism is the distemper of a hackney-coachman or chairman, who is obliged to be out in all weathers and at all hours.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Sometimes this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes he swung them perpendicularly, like a pendulum, on each side; and anon he slapped them swiftly and repeatedly across his breast, like the substitute used by a hackney-coachman for his usual flogging exercise, when his cattle are idle upon the stand, in a clear frosty day.

Waverley 2004

It was necessary that the advertisement should produce an effect upon another person, who was no other than the hackney-coachman who drove our hero to the place of his imprisonment.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004