hansoms

The young man looked out of the window a moment, at the called hansoms that lurched up, at the smooth broughams that rolled away.

The Lesson of the Master Henry James 1879

We'll just take one of these two-wheeled sardine tins that you people call hansoms, and get round to the hotel as quick as we can.

The Illustrious Prince 1906

To vary Carlyle's phrase, you can pay for dinners, you can call hansoms, you can take stalls; in fact, you are a prince -- to the extent of a sovereign.

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

On our main thoroughfares, the stream of omnibuses is quite as unbroken as the stream of electric and cable cars in New York; our van traffic is at least as heavy; and we have in addition the host of creeping "growlers" and darting hansoms, which is almost without counterpart in New York.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

We found no "hansoms" at the Dublin Station, only "outside cars," and cabs much neater than the London four-wheelers.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Max 2009

A direct route to the financial heart of London, the Strand was justifiably crowded and jam-packed with pedestrians, hansoms, omnibuses and carriages from dusk to dawn.

Promenades Through London: The Strand | Edwardian Promenade 2009

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage I heard the sound of voices from above.

Sole Music 2010

So far as I can determine, in Alexia's day mid 1870s, most cabs around London and Europe would be hansoms, except those used by elegant ladies, for whom a hansom was considered a trifle risqué.

All Hail the Hansom - Travel in Victorian Cities gailcarriger 2009