hansom

From the high, swaying seat of his hansom he looks upon his fellow-men as nomadic particles, of no account except when possessed of migratory desires.

A hansom! Then he was not following the others on foot; there was no guessing his game.

"It was one of Steve Hassell's carriages, I guess, unless the lady took a hansom."

Lying back in the hansom, with his hat pulled over his forehead, Dorian Gray watched with listless eyes the sordid shame of the great city, and now and then he repeated to himself the words that Lord Henry had said to him on the first day they had met, "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." Yes, that was the secret.

Carfry's--London's a desert at this season, and you've made yourself much too beautiful," Archer said to May, who sat at his side in the hansom so spotlessly splendid in her sky-blue cloak edged with swansdown that it seemed wicked to expose her to the London grime.

The Assistant Commissioner, driven rapidly in a hansom from the neighbourhood of Soho in the direction of Westminster, got out at the very centre of the Empire on which the sun never sets.

"It's really quite the best thing MacConnell's done," he explained as they got into a hansom. "It's tremendously well put on, too.

One feels sure one has been caught doing something ridiculous-- looking at one's tongue in a hansom, for instance."

But he repressed it, got into a hansom, and was driven to his father-in-law's house in Belsize Avenue, studying in a gloomily critical mood the anxiety that surged upon him and made his heart beat like a boy's as he drew near his destination.

In the morning you will send for a hansom, desiring your man to take neither the first nor the second which may present itself.

They called a hansom, and she told the driver where to go.

The reporter left his new-made friend a short time afterwards, and took a hansom to his office.