How To Use hackney coach In A Sentence
- One means was, of course, new taxation, which was imposed on salt, stamps, hackney coaches, and, especially, on land.
- In the 1670's, the city's Corporation received complaints about the traffic congestion caused by hackney coaches.
- While we were deliberating upon what was to be done, a hackney coachman, driving softly along, and perceiving us standing by the kennel, came up close to us, and calling, “A coach, master!” by a dexterous management of the reins made his horses stumble in the wet, and bedaub us all over with mud. The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Mr Singleton proposed calling a hackney coach, she consented, and they stopt for it at the church porch. Cecilia
- After that, we came back to the Barriere de l'Etoile, where she gave me a good 'pourboire' and got into a hackney coach, telling me to take the travelling carriage back to the man who lets such carriages in the Cour des Coches, Faubourg Saint-Honore. The Lesser Bourgeoisie
- When your miftrefs fends you for a hackney coach in a wet day, come back in the coach to fave your cloaths and the trouble of walking i it is better the bottom of her petticoats (hould be daggled with your dirty flioes, than your livery be fpoil* edj and yourfelf get a cold. The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
