Usage examples for hackney
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Speechless with indignation, Mr. Pickwick allowed himself to be led by his solicitor and friends to the door, and there assisted into a hackney- coach, which had been fetched for the purpose, by the ever watchful Sam Weller. – Bardell v. Pickwick by Percy Fitzgerald
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A waiter showed me into the coffee- room, and a chambermaid introduced me to my small bedchamber, which smelt like a hackney coach and was shut up like a family vault. – The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" With Some Observations on their Other Associations by B.W. Matz
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At the door of the house stood a hackney coach with two horses, of the kind known as a Compagnie Generale, from the Company that runs them. – Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac