" We hailed a hansom and drove across Westminster Bridge to the address he gavea gloomy back street off the York Road, one of those narrow, grimy thoroughfares into which the sun never shines.

And after the exchange of some further explanations, we took a hansom back to Charing Cross.

"I called a hansom for her myself.

Tom Ryfe esteemed it an unlooked-for piece of good fortune that turning out of Oxford Street he should meet another hansom going at speed in an opposite direction, and containingyes, he could have sworn to them before any jury in Englandthe faces, very near each other, of Lady Bearwarden and Dick Stanmore.

I couldn't go out of my own house on foot, in a dinner-gown, and pick up a hansom, could I?

He wanted Jarvis to drive his hansom for a week, on a percentage, until he could get about again.

She followed him breathlessly, then paused and stopped a passing hansom.

He was going to stay in some street off the Strand, and chartered a hansom to take him there.

" With a profound sigh from the heart the horse stopped in front of a corner apartment building and later, with a groan almost human, responded to the whip and jingled the hansom away, leaving Lanyard the poorer by the exorbitant fare he had promised and something more.

But, every now and then, the long, low car would shoot forward through some gap in the traffic, grazing the hubs of bus-wheels, dodging hansoms, shaving sudden corners in an apparently reckless manner.

I ordered a hansom to be called, and we just contrived to squeeze ourselves and the precious newspaper parcel inside it.

" So they paid their hansom, and threading the swarms of passengers on the footway, turned into Berners Street arm-in-arm.

So, having secured a hansom, he briefly told the Jehu to drive him to the Grosvenor.

Whilst they were both laughing a hansom appeared, and Conolly, recovering himself, hailed the driver.

The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

At Euston a porter got him a hansom, and he bargained with the cabman to take him and his valise to the Temple for eighteenpence, a sum which, he explained, allowed sixpence for the valise, as the distance could not by any means be made out to be more than two miles.

Do be quthere goes a hansom.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.