They hired a hansom cab to bring them from the church to the reception hall after the wedding. From LearnThat.org.
She called a hansom and once more drove to her favorite. From Wordnik.com. [How It All Came Round] Reference
She called a hansom, drove to a post-office, and sent a telegram. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
So I called a hansom, and she sank back in a corner with a little sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Mummer] Reference
Going on the streets he walked until exhausted, then he called a hansom and was driven to his club. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl of the Limberlost] Reference
I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Mummer] Reference
You think a dashing, irresponsible hansom is more in keeping with the Factory Girls 'Club or some giddy Whitechapel frivolity!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
So please call a hansom, and I shall drive there at once. From Wordnik.com. [A Young Mutineer] Reference
They called a hansom, and she told the driver where to go. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
He called a hansom, and they smoothly rolled to Earl's Court. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
Ronald called a hansom, and drove up rapidly to Epsilon Terrace. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
He looked at his watch, called a hansom, and drove to his club for lunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Crayon] Reference
Mike called a hansom; a few seconds more and she would pass from him into London. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
People in the sort of fiction she was fondest of "called a hansom" at least once a chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Coombe called a hansom and drove home, thinking of many things and looking even more than usually detached. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
Lord Freddie agrees with me that a hansom is the jolliest kind of vehicle: please don't frown at me, Lady Willow -- "jolliest" is Lord. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Intervenes] Reference
Then she called a hansom and drove home. From Wordnik.com. [Anna the Adventuress] Reference
He called a hansom and drove to his rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Havoc] Reference
A moment later I was in a hansom and on the way to. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
We went four in the hansom which had been waiting in the street to. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
She can hear her heart beating, as Carol helps her into the hansom. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He saw Richford in the distance entering a hansom; he called one himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
The way around is no longer by hansom carriage, but by modern TX1 black cab. From Wordnik.com. [TV review: Sherlock and Orchestra United] Reference
Then he got up upon the seat of his hansom, whipped up his horse, and drove off. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
As the hansom bowled along we three had what occasionally approached a warm discussion. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Hailing a hansom, he tells the man to drive him as quickly as possible to Richmond Terrace. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Notice that beautifully gowned, superbly handsome brunette who is getting out of a hansom at. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Two minutes later I emerged, to face Drayton and the Hartopp unloading from an electric hansom. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
She looked after the retreating hansom, and a wretched, half-frightened homesickness swept over her. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Trampy was waiting in a hansom, and hi, off for the holidays, the champagne, the long-dreamed-of Paradise!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The hansom cab was going along at an ordinary pace, and the gentleman (who carried a bundle of papers) tried to pass it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
We had clambered back into the hansom, the driver was just about to start, when the constable was struck by a sudden thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Henry must conduct them out of this dreadful Park; Henry must find a hansom with a reliable horse, and a driver of good reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Not until Nancy, after dismissing the hansom, found herself solitary and alone on the sidewalk in front of the gayly lighted little. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"Great Western, please, Paddington," we replied, and in a moment the trap of the hansom was shut, and we were bowling along Piccadilly. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
He got his hat, plunged into the cold night air, and, finding a hansom, bade the man drive as hard as he could go down to Sloane street. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
More than a week later while I was walking down Fifth avenue, a hansom cab stopped at the curb beside me, and Saberevski's face looked out. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
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