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And that is as true for us cabmen as it is for the church-goers."

Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.

She was sitting on the stone steps, a salt fish of some sort was in her hand; she was crying, wailing something about her luck and beating with the fish on the steps, and cabmen and drunken soldiers were crowding in the doorway taunting her.

As Way (1960: 8-9) described the problem: "since it is almost a truism that uncontrolled enterprise in any sphere is apt to mistake liberty for license, it is not surprising that the falls [became] the scene of unprincipled exploitation of the tourists by rapacious cabmen and others practiced in the art of polite robbery."

The police records, which confirm many arrests of cabmen, are properly contextualized by reference to the high degree of police regulation and constant police surveillance.

I believe my vacant looks, absolutely inaccessible to questions, did at length satisfy an army of starving cabmen that I did not want a hack, cab, or anything of that sort as yet.

Reports have it that the Yellow Cabmen do remove air-conditioners from the taxi's and make extra money by selling the A.C.

At the end of this chapter he vigorously maintains that Ford's dictum in 'On Impressionism' that 'the artist needs [...] a man with quite virgin mind' such as the peasant cabmen to ensure 'a fully intense perception' is an alliance that affirms Ford's distrust of the politics of reform (p.

By law, Hansom cabs were required to travel five-to-six mph, but early films of London traffic suggest that cabmen actually averaged nine-to-ten mph.

"Between 200 and 300 hands employed on Mr Draper's premises, in addition to about 280 cabmen and 50 other men engaged on the Shrewsbury establishment, are thrown out of work.

They complained that public transport drivers and cabmen had been overcharging them since the sale of CNG was suspended earlier this month.

To Naipaul, the pitiful scene of neglectful tourists and desperate cabmen showed that "there could be no pride in power".