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Hansom   /hˈænsəm/   Listen
noun
Hansom cab, Hansom  n.  A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. "He hailed a cruising hansom... " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair."






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"Hansom" Quotes from Famous Books



... of incident and excitement as any novel Mr. Hume has written since "The Mystery of the Hansom Cab." ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux

... Supposed Mistress Richard Crashaw Song, "Love in fantastic Triumph sate" Aphra Behn Les Amours Charles Cotton Rivals William Walsh I Lately Vowed, but 'Twas in Haste John Oldmixon The Touchstone Samuel Bishop Air, "I ne'er could any luster see" Richard Brinsley Sheridan "I Took a Hansom on Today" William Ernest Henley Da Capo Henry Cuyler Bunner Song Against Women Willard Huntington Wright Song of Thyrsis Philip Freneau The Test Walter Savage Landor "The Fault is not Mine" Walter Savage Landor The Snake Thomas Moore "When I Loved You" Thomas Moore A Temple to Friendship ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... the next three days, thinking that Mr. Prendergast would come to him, or send for him; but Mr. Prendergast did neither the one nor the other. Mr. Prendergast took his advice instead, and putting himself into a Hansom cab, had himself driven to ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... said, with a groan. "I suffer from heart attacks, and the crossing has altogether upset me. If you could remain with my niece while our luggage is examined, and send her afterwards to the Milan Hotel, you would do a real favor to a sick man. I could myself take a hansom there without waiting for a moment, and get to bed. Nothing else will ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... it be admitted that in all ages artists have had their grooves, like other men, and have reproduced themselves and their own best effects. But, as this is inevitably true, how careful they should be that the effects are really of permanent value and beauty! Realistic hansom cabs, and babies in strange raiment, and schoolgirls of the last century, and Masters of Hounds, are scarcely of so much permanent value as the favourite types and characters which Lionardo and Carpaccio repeat again ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang


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