With the construction of the branch line, carriages fell into disuse and dilapidation, and many an old barouche, landau, and brett passed into the hands of the negro hackmen who were former slaves of the old families.
The row of hackmen and hotel porters stand there, in gloomy silent defiance of the rapidly approaching end of things, each holding a sign bearing the name of some hotel.
He appears to enjoy the lawn as much as the hackmen did.
Hackmen (who are a product of civilization) know a lawn when they see it.
At the same moment I experienced a rapture in reflecting that I had underpaid three hackmen during my stay in Rome, and thus contributed to avenge my race for ages of oppression.
But the hotel clerks and the restaurateurs and the hackmen know them, and that is the reason why they receive with surprise and even offense our sympathy for their loneliness.
This may have been because the hackmen so far outnumbered the visitors, that the latter could dictate terms; but they chose to believe it a triumph of civilization; and I will never be the cynic to sneer at their faith.
On feast-days charges are doubled, and as feast-days are frequent, when all the stores are closed, the hackmen make a good thing of it.
The remainder of the hackmen quickly pulled off their hats, determined that no one should have the advantage.
If the hackmen had taken his money it would have served as proof to him that they were no better than he, that they were not in a business like his simply because they lacked his skill and finesse.
As she drew near, the line of hackmen bent forward, with hands outstretched for traveling bags, each man eyeing her intently as if hoping that the character of the look bestowed upon her might influence her choice.
A young man better dressed than the hackmen was standing behind them.
Car bells jangle, policemen yell their warnings to unwary foot passengers, hackmen screech their demands for patronage, and hurrying crowds move to and fro between the ferries and the city.
If Dorothy's hands hadn't been too full, she would have clapped them over her ears, to drown the cries of the hackmen who swarmed about her as she stepped from the train at the railway station in Toronto.
Even the hackmen had forsaken her in pursuit of other, more promising patrons.
Sent tea to thehackmen on Dartmouth Street corner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hackmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
