"Taxicab" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half aloud. "She's a sensible girl even if all New York has done its best to spoil her." He hailed a taxicab and was hurried ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... helped himself to whisky, and returned to his place with the tumbler in his hand. There was a brief silence. A little clock upon the mantelpiece struck two. The street sounds outside had ceased save for the hoot of an occasional taxicab. Philip was conscious of a burning desire to get away. This man, this great lump of power and success, standing like a colossus in his wonderful home, infuriated him. That a man should live who thought he had a right such as he claimed, ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... I don't believe that any one should have a lot of money, so that a taxicab could remain ticking away fabulous sums while a charming young lady dines at her leisure." ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... taxicab, which was circling the lake at the foot of the hill. Presently it came up the incline ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... thefts, like this one of Warrington's car," continued McBirney, warming up to the subject, "have been so bold that you would be astonished. And it is those stolen cars, I believe, that are used in the wave of taxicab and motor car robberies, hold-ups, and other crimes that is sweeping over the city. The cars are taken to some obscure garage, without doubt, and their identity is destroyed by men who are ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
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