While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
Adieus were said, and Paul found himself again in his taximeter cab. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
Baxter, who had received instructions to meet him, relieved him of his travelling bag, and a taximeter cab, whisking him quickly to the. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
Stopping only to borrow fifty francs for expenses from the cashier's wicket, Martin hurried his friend into a taximeter cab and gave the brief direction: "Pont de Neuilly.". From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
The man nodded, and turned to set the time index of the taximeter. From Wordnik.com. [One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York] Reference
'Driving in a taximeter to the ferry this morning,' resumed Archibald. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
The way I got to watch the clock like it was a taximeter the whole time I'm out anywheres. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
We purred extravagantly up the Avenue, and how horrified Aunt Lyddy would be at the taximeter!. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Journeys On] Reference
One looked like a large taximeter from a motor cab; the other was a diminutive gas-metre, in looks at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
The figure stopped to read the taximeter, shook his fist at the chauffeur, and approached me, muttering audibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Window at the White Cat] Reference
(/) Each taximeter, or measuring device used upon vehicles for determining the cost of transportation, one dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
'You know,' said Psmith, after a silence, as they flitted through the streets in the taximeter, 'one lives and learns. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
I confess that I would as soon begin the argument with one thing as another; I would begin it with a turnip or a taximeter cab. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Julien found a taximeter automobile and, punctually at the time appointed, drove to the little milliner's shop in the Rue St. Antoine. From Wordnik.com. [The Mischief Maker] Reference
Taxis get their name from the 1891 invention of the taximeter, an instrument used to measure the distance and time a car has travelled. From Wordnik.com. [northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star] Reference
Versatile Comedians and Patterers who had been waiting to see him for the last hour and a half, was bowling off in a taximeter-cab to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion] Reference
In the Milano Taxi, the need for passengers to always have to gaze at the taximeter in the front to see the current charges is now a thing of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
Quite unconcernedly she would jam down the lever of the taximeter the wily Italian cabby had pulled only halfway so that the meter might register double. From Wordnik.com. [Cheerful—By Request] Reference
I had checked off eight of the Andersons on my list, without result, and the taximeter showed something over nineteen dollars, when the driver drew up at the curb. From Wordnik.com. [The Window at the White Cat] Reference
A taximeter cab, and gave the address to the driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrious Prince] Reference
"Yesterday evening," she said, "I saw them together in a taximeter cab. From Wordnik.com. [A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories] Reference
A taximeter cab, and go out into the unknown, hand in hand, trusting to luck. '. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
"Ten minutes as near as a touch, according to the way the taximeter jumped while I was waiting. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
I'll be off and get a taximeter automobile instead of this thing, and come back for you whenever you say. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mischief Maker] Reference
In many locations around the globe, taxis have never met their namesake, the taximeter, so you may have no clue how much you’re to be charged for your journey. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
(g) Each taximeter, or measuring device used upon vehi - cles for determining the cost of transportation, one dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
'There was no taximeter accident.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
Here's how a Chicago taximeter works. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Here is a Berlin taximeter catalogue in. From Wordnik.com. [Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education] Reference
If a horse cab is fitted with a taximeter. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
A taximeter cab was standing by the sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and Betty] Reference
Louis held up his hand and called a taximeter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora] Reference
One colleague has never seen a taximeter. From Wordnik.com. [cafebabel.com] Reference
A taximeter running into a hansom cab. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Three Hemispheres] Reference
We will take this taximeter, shall we? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora] Reference
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