hansom

How To Use hansom In A Sentence

• In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
• Vehicle types produced included broughams, Victorias, hansoms, landaulets, and commercial vehicles include trucks and sightseeing buses.
• I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. The Master Mummer
• Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
• Through the closed windows came the occasional ‘peep’ of a fogbound wayfarer whistling for a hansom.
• We caught the Light out of Euston for Manchester Piccadilly, and thence made our way by hansom to Peel Park, at the north of the city. ANTI-ICE
• It was the day of the horse-drawn waggonettes, cabs, hansoms etc, filled with race-goers and which passed in rapid succession.
• Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside.
• Going on the streets he walked until exhausted, then he called a hansom and was driven to his club. A Girl of the Limberlost
• Unless you're playing racquetball at the New York Athletic Club or taking Aunt Doris for a sorry ride in a hansom cab, exactly what would you be doing on these three blocks?