The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.
He hacks and hews at Southey through several furious Essays, and ends with a groan.
In the confusion I avoided several hacks by throwing myself right and left on the sand.
And I'm skipping over much what followed until one day out to the ranch drives in hacks and buckboards a lot of Mrs. Summers's friends from the East--a sister or so and two or three men.
Hacks for long distances are seldom required in England in these railway days.
For hacks and ladies' horses on the road, a standing martingale, buckled to the nose-band of the bridle, is the best.
Carriage horses= require more substance in their shoes than hacks, and the narrow concave shoes suitable for hunters and hacks cannot give sufficient durability.
Railroad-hacks and omnibuses rattle over the pavements.
Two veterans of the "men of the world" would have met with little more heart-workings than two old hacks worn out on the road.
Three hacks appeared (note that the patrol-wagon was conspicuously absent), the six were loaded upon the cushions, the word was given and one by one the hacks rattled down Stockton street and disappeared in the direction of the city.
It is wonderful that such men cannot cut their way through the apathy of public opinion, which seems to prefer old hacks for dragging a steam engine instead of putting to it good, energetic engineers, and let the steam work.
State Conventions, and the old party-hacks under arms.
All is possible; and Halleck's nag has as long ears as have the nags and hacks of the other race-runners.
Never and in no country has the so-called good press shown itself so below the great emergencies of the day as are the old hacks semperliving in the press.
He is the representative man of the new and better generation which ought to have the affairs of the country in hand, and not these old worn-out hacks who are at it now.
Why, O why do some of them disappear in the muddy part of the great city, and others are overawed and overleaped by the hacks and by the politicians, or the so-called wire-pullers.
Katrine, who is sitting with her back to the horses, sees nothing of this, but rejoices to find the pace of the hacks so much improved.
The sorrels in their gay trappings are harnessed to the heavy landau, the long-legged hacks to the drag.
In the midst of the excitement, one of the hacks deliberately lies down, and thus diverts the captain's attention from the driver.
It is late; we have far to go, and the hacks are scarcely trustworthy," the captain remarks.
The hacks sadly stretch out their long, skinny legs, and trot laboriously after the brisk drag.
The road grows stony and steep; thehacks drag along more and more wearily and at last come to a stand-still.
He was denounced, of course, by the alarmists and the cowards; by the Castle hacks and the furious anti-Catholic bigots.
One could easily understand all this if the libellers had been vulgar and venal Grub Street hacks who were paid to attack some enemy of their paymaster.
Many park-horses and ladies' hacksare trained to spring at once, without breaking into a run or trot, into the canter.
Sootythorn hacks any more; and Helena shall keep her carriage-horses all to herself, and drive about all day long if she likes.
So the two tandem horses and two of Mr. Garley's hacks were clothed in the splendors of the new harness, and attached to the great vehicle, whilst a dozen officers mounted to the lofty outside places.
Hacks drivin' up to Beasley's house--a whole lot of 'em.
Won't be no more hacks till they begin to go home.
The majority of the Irish members were party hacks returned in their master's interests to vote without conscience.
Its English prototype was bad enough, but to call the collection of retained nincompoops and Castle hacks a Parliament was to degrade the word to the lowest depths.
Ladies of high estate joined in the numerous intrigues, and every party had its literary hacks and hangers-on who wrote to order, and hoped to fatten on the carcass of the State when their particular masters had triumphed.
The three magnificent hackswere filled, and managed, with much plunging and excitement, to plow a way through the crowd and so depart.
Here also stood in stately grandeur the three livery hacks of which San Francisco boasted.
Our friends then remounted their hacks and parted company in very moderate humours, feeling fully satisfied that his lordship had done it on purpose.
Very willing hacks they are, too, railways especially, and so frequently ridden, that it is no easy matter to discriminate between the real and the fictitious loser.
The towns people who came to buy, women mostly with baskets, would file leisurely between the rows of vehicles, hacks and spring wagons of various descriptions, looking here and there at the vegetables displayed.
From out of the cloud of dust rolling up to the hotel emerged hacks and stages well filled with passengers, whom the railroad had brought from San Francisco to Yuba City, and who thus continued to this place and onward.
There is therefore no opportunity for bamboozling people with a sham continuity, or of mixing up the interests of the party hacks with the instinct of patriotism.
Just beyond was a row of hacks awaiting the weary reveller, and in a moment Gwynne and Isabel were driving rapidly along a dark and deserted street.
There are hacks and coupes at the livery-stables, if you care to expend ten or fifteen dollars for being less comfortable than in the cars.
Some people are getting mighty nervous, and I've let five hacks and buggies already, at my own figure, to them as wants to get out of town quick.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
