There is as much difference between the two as between a young guardsman in full dress at the opera and the night cabman huddled up in the multitudinous capes of his great-coat.
It is not at all uncommon for a cabman to earn four or five shillings of a night by driving fast to the different stations and giving the alarm, receiving a shilling from each for the "call.
It is now known that the robbery was effected between Berkeley Square and Grosvenor Square, as a man was seen with the package standing at the corner of Mount Street, Davies Street, bargaining with a cabman to take him to the City.
Althea walked quickly towards Great George Street; to the left she passed Boar's Head Yard, where lived an old cabman in whom she took an interest, and whose cab generally stood at Storey's Gate.
He discharged the cabman at the corner of Finchley Road, and walked along to No.
These two sapient Highlanders, after considerable discussion, concluded to call at the house to which the cabman had driven, and, if they found nothing suspicious, excuse their visit in any way suggested.
Soon an irregular and shuffling tread sounded from the stair; and in a minute he and a cabman entered the parlour, bearing between them what seemed the lifeless body of a man.
The constable turned to the cabman, and the cabman looked bewildered.
The cabman looked about him curiously; but, being apparently satisfied with his fare, withdrew.
The result was that at Paddington the cabman thought she was stingy, and he was so abusive that she had to call a policeman, and compel the man to take the right fare.
The cabman evidently won, and Mr. Vanduzen arrived on the lawn so perturbed that he forgot to kiss Mrs. Wertzelmann's hand, a custom he has affected since taking up his residence abroad.
Then reflected that the cabman was only fulfilling his duty zealously.
The cabman had descended, and the passengers within were handing out the articles which they desired him to carry up to the house.
The cabman looked helplessly about him with a bewildered, questioning gaze, as one to whom alone of all men this unheard-of and extraordinary thing had happened.
A cabman going through the streets at night can jog along unnoticed, especially if a lady and gentleman in evening dress are inside.
A propos of the choice of riding in a four-wheeler or a hansom, "the Dasher" on one occasion played heavy lead in a cab drama in which the third person and I took part in addition to the cabman and the crowd.
But let thecabman who brought me up to Wynd's Point tell his own story.
Up they rattle from this side and that, and every cabman flings a jibe as he passes.
For the cabman is like "the wise thrush who sings his song twice over.
The cabman sat with his back turned upon the party, smoking a meerschaum pipe.
A bottle of beer for the cabman there at that table," said Tom.
Mr. Fink-Nottle appears to have realized at this point that his position as regards thecabman had become equivocal.
But I didn't get a chance, and came back to London by the last train, not knowing as you was in it, till I came out of Victoria, and saw you getting into a cab and heard you tell the cabman to drive here.
Tinker saw his chance of escaping any further aid from the police, thrust Elizabeth into a hansom, gave the cabman the address, whistled Blazer out of the fight, jumped in after her, and drove off amid the cheers of the crowd.
She felt that a man who had been a cabman for two and twenty years ought to know the way to Newington Butts better than she did.
Then mind you make the cabman bring it up before you pay him; I know them cabmen.
But the cabman would not be made; he pleaded inability to leave his horse.
After the cabman had been paid there remained of her capital less than eight pounds.
The cabman sat, silent and stolid, on the box, waiting for events.
On the point of starting the horse to pursue him, the cabman was effectually stopped.
Meantime, I find that the cabman was told to drive to Victoria.
A little sum in mental arithmetic, which he worked on the way and submitted to the cabman at the end of the journey, was found to be wrong.
Her strength was nearly spent, but the cabman was on the watch, and, driving up to the entrance, climbed down and bundled her into the cab.
The roofs were piled high with luggage, and the leading cabman shared his seat with a brass-bound trunk of huge dimensions and extremely sharp corners.
There is a limit to the patience of every man, and the cabman was proceeding to tell her when he was checked by Mr. Hartley.
He promised extra fares to thecabman who drove him.
The cabmanwho drove him assured him that the barricades were erected from the Château d'Eau to the Gymnase, and turned down the Faubourg Saint-Martin.
The policeman and the cabman will certainly identify you, and, for the reason that you say the street was empty when you bade her good-bye, no one will be able to swear that you did not go into the house with her.
The cabman who had driven the pair to Burford Street was examined and repeated his former evidence.
The cabman who had driven them from the Strand to Burford Street was next called.
They descended from the cab, and Godfrey, who had no desire that the cabman should overhear his conversation with Teresina, paid him off with a liberal largesse, and allowed him to go on his way rejoicing.
The cabman who had picked them up in the Strand and had driven them to Burford Street, was called, and the policeman who had seen them talking together on the pavement there.
So as the last cabmancame slowly out of the Avenue, Janet called to him.
The cabman jumped from his seat and rang the bell in form.
In 1875 Punch quotes at length the account of an exceptionally honest cabman with the additional information that his name was Isaacs.
By this time the cabman had dismounted her box and stood staring at her in sullen disapproval, while a couple of very drunk but cheerful costers argued with each other as to whether they ought not to help the young lady to get in.
Of course it was absurd, and the cabman did not look as if he would be in the least willing to comply.
Joan paid the cabman and followed her inquisitor into the office.
So Joan had described her destination to the cabmanas a ladies' club, somewhere in Digby Street.
He only shouted to the cabman to drive to John Street, telling him the number.
It was the voice of the cabman who had been in altercation with the woman.
She was swearing at a cabman whose wheel had caught the point of her donkey's shaft, and was hauling him round.
The cabman made some remarks about taking it out of my hide, and I spent all of twenty minutes proving to him that the rest of the bunch would settle when they came out.
The cabman then asked for his money for the whole day.
The cabman drives up in front of the closed gates and says, 'I told you so, sir.
You drive in, and doesn't your cabman think you're a swell.
My cabman departed, leaving me with my bag on the pavement at my feet gazing at a narrow dirty door, the upper half of which was filled in with frosted glass.
He elicited the fact that a vehicle had been hastily ordered from one of them on the previous evening, and that the cabman had driven an elderly lady and gentleman to Bushey station.
The cabman thought that they were man and wife because he swore so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
