Well, do you know, darling, that cabby addressed me seriously; took me to task for want of candour.
But he seemed embarrassed about finances--at least, about the three shillings the cabby had refused; for he kept them in his hand as if he didn't know what to do with them.
Few stories of London origin are more familiar than that of the cabby who, regarding his day off as one of his indisputable rights, spent it each week in riding about the City with a fellow cabby in order to keep him company.
The cabby need not follow so close; why, the horse's nose all but touched the brougham now and then.
The cabbyhad been desired to drive the children to Mrs. West's home, and the address Jane had written out was in his hand.
But Cecile's clear eyes looked up with all kinds of thanks into the face of the big guard as he put them into a cab, and gave the cabbydirections where to drive them to.
Ere you are, sir," says Cabby briskly, turning half round on his box and pointing to an old stone structure which stretches quite across the High street.
After some palaver cabby took us to one near by, where we got a room.
Cabby mumbled something about Marke through a beard of truly amazing wildness.
He jumped in and had hardly closed the door before the cabby had brought his whip across the flanks of the dozing horse.
A policeman shouted, but the cabby took a chance and kept on.
The cabby struck another match and applied it to a bit of candle he found on a hall table.
The horse, the cab, and the cabby were all extraordinarily old, and when we were at the point farthest from possibility of help, they all three collapsed.
The cabby beat his horse into a sort of imitation gallop which was fairly fast, however.
Then we turned into Waterloo Station, and, as we were driving up the slope we met another hansom coming down; and when the cabby kissed his hand and smiled at us, we guessed that he was the sportsman we had been following.
The cabby threw open the apron of the cab and gently shook the recumbent figure.
The cabby raised the trap door, looked down, and descended heavily on to the pavement.
The cabby descended and walked to the corner of the street to see if he could beg a match for his pipe from any passer-by.
We had a drive of about four miles, for Osnabruck camp is situated on the outskirts of the town; and we were greeted on arrival by a request from the cabby for ten marks.
After the dog had been lost, he saw an empty hansom, which he got into; and the cabby could not get him out, for he showed his teeth.
Ocky spoke to the old cabby with greater freedom than to anyone, save Peter.
Grace's father was a cabby and was known to the Barrington household as Mr. Grace--a name of Peter's bestowing.
During the whole time that I was in Russia, I never once saw a cabby hurt his horse with the whip.
The house surgeon was assuring the cabby that he was drunk: the cabby telling the lot of them exactly what he thought of them.
There was a splendid struggle in which the foaming cabby was pitched out into the road, —ing their —ing eyes to Hell.
The cabby had burst through the concourse on the hospital steps, thirsting for the blood of Wade, who, by this time, was lying quietly on a hooded stretcher swatched in bandages and quite unrecognisable.
The cabby whistled “Little Dolly Daydreams” with a ravishing tremolo.
If you mykes yerself my fare," returned thecabby shrewdly, "I ham.
The outlander was sensible of some relief when his cabby popped hurriedly out of the entrance to a tenement, a dull-visaged, broad-shouldered waterman ambling more slowly after.
Accordingly the cabby disappeared; and Kirkwood continued to stare about him, eagerly, hopefully.
That's the greatest comfort of all London, the surprising intellectual strength the average cabby displays when you promise him a tip.
In the background the cabby loitered, gnawed by insatiable curiosity.
The cabby exploded with indignation, continuing to give a lifelike imitation of a rumpled parrot.
Fortunately, the cabbywas instant to rein in skilfully before the passageway, and Kirkwood had the door open before the four-wheeler stopped.
When we shake them off, we can have the cabby take us to the hotel.
Where shall I tell the cabby to go this time, Miss Calendar?
Kirkwood thrust head and shoulders out the window and instructed the cabby accordingly; but his ruse had been ineffectual, as he found when he sat back again.
The cabby had a foot upon the step when Kirkwood tapped his shoulder.
The swagman turned slowly and regardedcabby with a quiet grin.
A hofficer's lady," said the inventive cabby to the boy who opened the door.
The horse finally backed up a flight of steps, and rubbed the cabby against a front door, and jabbed the wheels into an area railing and fell down.
If the horse is wanted, it is sure to be eating; if the cabby is wanted, he is equally sure to be drinking.
As it happened, the money we went out with had been spent on unexpected finds, and neither we nor our good-natured cabby were in possession of thirty francs!
In fact, cabby was rather staggered to hear the price, having offered to advance what we needed.
The cabby spoke the honest sentiment of his heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chauffeur; coachman; driver; hack; motorist; speeder; teamster; trucker; truckman; wagoner; whip
