"Remember the night your hack-driver got drunk and left you --". From Wordnik.com. [WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL] Reference
"That it is, Marm," returns the methodical hack-driver, "he an't got a very big head, our corporation.". From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The wily hack-driver (he agreed for four and charged her twelve shillings) leaves her black box on the step and drives away. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The bell-boy whom I have mentioned was the factotum of the Loomis House, being, in an emergency, hack-driver, porter, runner -- all by turns, and nothing long at a time. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
For the hack-driver personally I have great respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
"Remember the night your hack-driver got drunk and left you". From Wordnik.com. [When Alice Told Her Soul] Reference
No depot hack-driver would consider such a drive on such a night. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
She paid the hack-driver five pieces and went up the stone steps of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Jees Uck] Reference
"Remember the night your hack-driver got drunk and left you — —". From Wordnik.com. [When Alice Told Her Soul] Reference
He really added nothing to the testimony of the hack-driver and Bonelli. From Wordnik.com. [Waring's Peril] Reference
An exclamation of surprise and alarm brought both Mr. -- and the hack-driver to her side. From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
"I'M waiting for you," said the hack-driver, as I entered the office of the hotel with Mr. Loraine. From Wordnik.com. [Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy] Reference
Inside of a month I'll find that woman, the hack-driver, and perhaps this lame duck caught in the meshes. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Passenger : a novel] Reference
Never in this world can I force myself to believe that a hack-driver is in earnest in any thing short of his fare. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
The curiously scrutinizing look and odd smile of the hack-driver when she gave him the address did not tend to reassure her. From Wordnik.com. [Grandmother Elsie] Reference
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for making a person of my position behave so giddily in the presence of a hack-driver.". From Wordnik.com. [The House of Martha] Reference
If I could succeed in bribing the Irish hack-driver, I might be far on my way before the bank vault would be opened and the alarm given. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
Nat, the "bucket-maker," grave and sober, left the seas, and, I believe, is a hack-driver in his native town, although I have not had the luck to see him since the. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
He went to the door to summon the hack-driver to take the trunk, and the man said that a lady had just stepped down to ask if he would come up there to number eleven when he could find time. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
The impatience of a hack-driver compelled us to lose a day at a Depot on the R. Road, thereby cutting me off from several visits which I designed to pay previous to my officiating on the coming Lord's Day. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the thirty-fifth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Mississippi,] Reference
Nat, the bucket-maker, grave and sober, left the seas, and, I believe, is a hack-driver in his native town, although I have not had the luck to see him since the Alert hauled into her berth at the North End. 66. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Four Years Later] Reference
"Oh! come and see me!" snarled the strange boy, in a contemptuous tone, cocking his fists up in a scientific manner, and dropping into a stoop-shouldered swagger that would have driven envy into the heart of a bullying hack-driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
The hack-driver of the old days that I used to find waiting for me at the station curb, with that impossible horse of his -- the hack-driver with his bulbous red face, and the nice smell of rye whisky all 'round him for yards -- gone, so it seems, for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Fiction] Reference
The illustration of the intoxicated hack-driver who had fallen from his hack and inquired who it was that had fallen, and then had pitied himself, was, said the Professor, as original and perfect an illustration of our subjective-objectivity as he had met with in all his researches. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy 4] Reference
Nat, the "bucketmaker," grave and sober, left the seas, and, I believe, is a hack-driver in his native town, although I have not had the luck to see him since the Alert hauled into her berth at the North End. One cold winter evening, a pull at the bell, and a woman in distress wished to see me. From Wordnik.com. [Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative] Reference
In every town, no matter what its name, there was always the same sleepy team in front of the Farmers 'Bank, the same boy chasing his hat, the same hack-driver in front of the hotel, the same pretty girl bowing to the same delighted young man near the same town pump or the soldiers' monument in the square. From Wordnik.com. [Otherwise Phyllis] Reference
Then Mr. Allerton had told his story again, without throwing the faintest light on the proceedings; and the hack-driver was found, and frankly and fully told his: that Lascelles and another gentleman hired him about eight o'clock to drive them down to the former's place, which they said was several squares above the barracks. From Wordnik.com. [Waring's Peril] Reference
So while the man next the hack-driver, ordered by Mandeville and laden with travelling-bags, climbed to a seat by the Callenders 'coachman the aide-de-camp crowded in between Constance and Victorine, the equipage turned from the remaining soldiers, and off the ladies spun for home, Anna and Miranda riding backward to have the returned warrior next his doting wife. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
"Then it was some cabman or hack-driver she hailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Circular Study] Reference
` ` bucket-maker, '' grave and sober, left the seas, and, I believe, is a hack-driver in his native town, although I have not had the luck to see him since the Alert hauled into her berth at the North. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
"Then I could see the Parisian detectives -- the best in the world -- going to take down from the lady's lips a minute description of the adventurer, the swindler, who had imposed upon them, and attempted to cheat a poor hack-driver out of his hard-earned wages!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Then, I'll hunt up the hack-driver. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Passenger : a novel] Reference
Never stop to quarrel with a hack-driver. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
A hack-driver who had heard the lady's remark. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets] Reference
Seated along with these are two upper-class domestics, a hack-driver, an ex-gendarme dismissed from the corps, a cobbler on the street corner, a runner on errands who was once a carter's boy, and another who, two months before this, was a scavenger's apprentice, the latter penniless and in tatters before he became one of the Committee, and since that, well clad, lodged and furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
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