hansom

How To Use hansom In A Sentence

• He goes to Bond Street and hails a hansom, tells the driver an address, and gives him some extra money when the driver tells him it is too far.
• High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones. Max
• In the street outside an aged hansom cab with an elderly horse was drawn up, with the driver sitting slumped over the reins. COFFIN ON THE WATER
• Hansom cabs were patented by the English architect Joseph Hansom.
• Upright the facts concerning myself and project, he withheld judgment till next day, when I dodged into his street conventionally garbed and in a hansom. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
• Margo's performance inside the hansom cab, weeping distraughtly and leaning against Shahdi Feroz, left Mr. Shannon clearing his throat in sympathy. Ripping Time
• In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
• ` O Mrs Hansome...' `All I need is to be sure you will be there. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
• The lady in the corner challenged Mr. Hansombody to deny that our town was deteriorating -- the rising generation more mischievous than its parents, and given to mitching from school, and cigarette smoking, if not to worse. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
• 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 A Woman Intervenes