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hackman

[hak-muhn, -man] / ˈhæk mən, -ˌmæn /


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Julian and the hackman went upstairs, and when the boys came down again they each wore a traveling-coat and had a small valise in their hands.

From The Haunted Mine by Castlemon, Harry

“That horrid hackman wouldn’t give us a lift, although he was sitting at Tompkins’ store toasting his feet at a stove,” added Belle, angrily.

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

“Most of them is,” the hackman said sententiously.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Endicott, Ruth Belmore

She retired weeping, and cried herself to sleep, and was awakened early the next morning by her hackman, to take her to the train, which was almost ready to start.

From Octavia The Octoroon by Lee, J. F.

Tim, the hackman, had an accident to his load before he was ready to start from the camp after dinner.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Endicott, Ruth Belmore

The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the young hackmen terrified her with their hard, bold eyes and cruel, tobacco-stained mouths.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

Beggars there are none, to the credit of the city be it said; nor is one importuned by hackmen or other public servants; all are ready to serve you, but none to annoy you.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

He answered them all courteously, showing a manly composure in doing so, that served to calm the fever-heat into which many had been thrown by the stories of the two hackmen.

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

But mere grandeur of nature has no educating effect upon the soul of man; else, Switzerland would not have supplied Paris with footmen, and the hackmen of Niagara would spare the tourist.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various




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