How To Use Hansom In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Hansom cabs were patented by the English architect Joseph Hansom.
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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
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Margo's performance inside the hansom cab, weeping distraughtly and leaning against Shahdi Feroz, left Mr. Shannon clearing his throat in sympathy.
Ripping Time
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In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
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` O Mrs Hansome...' `All I need is to be sure you will be there.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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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
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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
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They walked down the one flight of stairs together, their footsteps echoing up through the empty house; out on the pavement he called a hansom, held his arm across the wheel as she stepped in; turned to the cabby, gave him his fare, told him Waterloo Station; then he leant across the step of the cab and held out his hand.
Sally Bishop A Romance
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Through the closed windows came the occasional ‘peep’ of a fogbound wayfarer whistling for a hansom.
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He started back to the club, but it was so hot that he thought he would faint before he got there; so he called a hansom, on the principle that it was cheaper to ride and keep well than to walk and have a sunstroke.
Van Bibber and Others
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The brougham was a token of harmony, of the fine conditions papa would this time offer: he had usually come for her in a hansom, with a four-wheeler behind for the boxes.
What Maisie Knew
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I spied a steam engine I could use to fashion a turret, and boiler plates could be secured inside the hansom to armor us from their fell weapons.
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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
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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
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So I called a hansom, and she sank back in a corner with a little sigh of relief.
The Master Mummer
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The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.
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Traffic duty consisted of ensuring the roads were not obstructed by horses and carts, hansom cabs and making sure that persons being carried in sedan chairs were transported on the road not on the pavement.
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When he had lighted it he tipped the porter, and strolled back to the entrance, on the chance of finding the carriage still there, but it had gone, and he called a hansom, paused a moment with his foot on the step, then finally directed the man to drive to the Fraylings '.
The Heavenly Twins
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Vehicle types produced included broughams, Victorias, hansoms, landaulets, and commercial vehicles include trucks and sightseeing buses.
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I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite.
The Master Mummer
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Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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Through the closed windows came the occasional ‘peep’ of a fogbound wayfarer whistling for a hansom.
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We caught the Light out of Euston for Manchester Piccadilly, and thence made our way by hansom to Peel Park, at the north of the city.
ANTI-ICE
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It was the day of the horse-drawn waggonettes, cabs, hansoms etc, filled with race-goers and which passed in rapid succession.
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Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside.
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Going on the streets he walked until exhausted, then he called a hansom and was driven to his club.
A Girl of the Limberlost
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Unless you're playing racquetball at the New York Athletic Club or taking Aunt Doris for a sorry ride in a hansom cab, exactly what would you be doing on these three blocks?
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In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
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The doors were just being shut by the linkman when a little figure in a white cloak flew down the steps of the house and held up a hand to the driver of the hansom.
The Marriage of William Ashe
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In regard to _a_, he shows some inconsistency, sometimes giving a close and obscure sound, as _hev_ for _have_, _hendy_ for _handy_, _ez_ for _as_, _thet_ for _that_, and again giving it the broad sound it has in _father_, as _hânsome_ for _handsome_.
The Biglow Papers
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We caught the Light out of Euston for Manchester Piccadilly, and thence made our way by hansom to Peel Park, at the north of the city.
ANTI-ICE
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She called a hansom, drove to a post-office, and sent a telegram:
The Country House
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You think a dashing, irresponsible hansom is more in keeping with the Factory Girls 'Club or some giddy Whitechapel frivolity!'
The Convert
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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
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` O Mrs Hansome...' `All I need is to be sure you will be there.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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The relaxation of licensing control on horse-drawn cabs in 1831 led to a great and necessary increase, J. A. Hansom inventing his famous cab in 1834.
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Around us the noise of the city flowed back as water scooped away returns to its container, and our hansom jolted into life once more.
ANTI-ICE
