In the absence of my war-horse I hired a respectablehack to take me to Manassas, the driver saying that he would not charge me more than ten dollars an hour, as he had seen better days himself.
It took him almost two hours tohack an aperture that would admit him easily.
The American had added a couple of better-bred faster horses to his hack and now enjoyed the gallop after a fox as much as any hardened foxhunter of them all.
A hack was waiting for me at the city turnpike bars.
Pity the poor groveling hack at the bottom who has not the brain-power either to understand or to control that which his very presence and necessities create.
I'm in the position of a man with his hack to the wall.
He was striking out right and left at random, thinking only to hack and hew the bodies of Pagans.
That was now the point of attraction, and Anton saw from a distance a man plant a ladder against the wall, and hack away at the escutcheon till, amid profound silence, it fell to the ground.
He is permitted to burn his enemy, or brand him, flay him, shoot him down, or hack him to pieces.
Every man carried at his belt a kukri, the Gurkha's heavy, curved knife, and used it to hack his way through the tangle of creepers and undergrowth.
Khartoum pursues her leisurely way through the forest; for, in thick jungle where we must swerve aside to avoid trees and hack a path through creepers and undergrowth, we hardly go a mile an hour.
In attacking a stockade the assailants try to get close up to it, fire in through the loopholes and hack it down with axes.
We found it difficult to manoeuvre off the parade ground, as the hills around were mostly covered with such tangled jungle that one had to hack a passage through it with a kukri or a dah.
You can scarcely expect a hack journalist," he said, with a smile, "to write with the elegance of a Walter Pater.
I'll catch thehack down the road and hold it," he said.
In the afternoon a hack came up from Casanova, with a fresh relay of servants.
I hardly knew she was gone until I heard the station hack moving off.
A veiled lady," he persisted, "who was apparently young and beautiful, engaged his hack and asked to be driven to Sunnyside.
But the man who drives the hackdown there tells a story that may possibly prove to be important.
It was about five o'clock when the hack came from the station to get them, and, to my amazement, it had an occupant.
Looking around, the audience saw the sexton leading Marian Hazelton out into the open air, where, at her request, he left her, and went hack to see the closing of the ceremony which made Katy Lennox a wife.
The handsomest man I ever saw," was the verdict of most of the girls as they came hack to their work, while Wilford drove on to the farmhouse where Katy had been so anxiously watching for him.
We talk about "literature" and we talk about "hack writers," implying that the reading that we do is of literature.
Well--" Jeff gave him the hack saw and the pair in the adjoining cell roared with laughter.
Unfortunately, the hack saw department is understocked and our new order has not arrived.
No doubt Ted will bring a hack or two a lady can ride,' said Laurette, emboldened by the inferences she drew from observing the girl to handle her subject 'like a lad of mettle.
The hack driver had not been paid, and in all probability would return for Maroney.
Roch concluded he could gain from him some information as to Maroney's driver, so he carelessly asked him if the hack driver was also hired out.
They proceeded quietly on their journey until they reached New Orleans, where Maroney secured a hack and was driven to the City Hotel.
If he watched the house, he might be discovered from behind the blinds; so he determined to keep his eye on the hack driver.
In Lydia's voice there was even a little flatness as she answered, "Oh, he put me in thehack and went off to see about business.
In the blending of handwork and thought in [p-ix] such arts as we propose to deal with, happy careers may be found as far removed from the dreary routine of hack labour as from the terrible uncertainty of academic art.
In the blending of handwork and thought in such arts as we propose to deal with, happy careers may be found as far removed from the dreary routine of hack labour as from the terrible uncertainty of academic art.
Sue let herself out on the front porch, closed the screen door and leaned hack against it, clinging to the knob, breathless, unstrung.
Sue threw hack her head, choked down a sound that might have been a laugh or a sob.
Hack him with a knife and he wouldn't bleed but just chip off into pebbles!
It was just four days later from a rolling, musty-cushioned hack that the Senior Surgeon disembarked at his own front gate.
He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
