"Hackman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... though scarcely shorter than Le Songe d'Or, slighter. The first is a pathetic but not quite consummate story of "love and madness" in a much better sense than that in which Nodier's eccentric employer, Sir Herbert Croft, used the words as his title for the history of Parson Hackman and Miss Ray.[86] The second ("combe," the omission of which from the official French dictionaries Nodier characteristically denounces, is our own "combe"—a deep valley; from, I suppose, the Celtic Cwm; and pronounced by Devonshire ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... The hackman thought of severed arteries. His galloping horse distanced a large number of citizens who had been running to find what caused such contortions ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... conversation took place in the hall, into which the hackman had borne the travellers' luggage. A pull was heard at the door bell—a loud, confident pull—which Mr. Whedell knew could be inflicted only by a creditor. It would not do to admit his son-in-law into his budget of family secrets ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton |
