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Example sentences for "hansoms"

Lexicographically close words:
hann; hanner; hannot; hansom; hansome; hansum; hant; hante; hanted; hantle
  1. The cheapness of the hansoms delighted her, and she spent most of her time dashing about in cabs.

  2. And I heard somewhere that most of the hansoms in London are owned by the aristocracy.

  3. Of course, there's such a lot of us; the hansoms are pretty nigh as bad off as we are.

  4. Numbers of hansoms and four-wheelers passed, or stood by the curb, hailing us feebly, or not even attempting to attract our attention, but every taxi seemed to have its load.

  5. At the end of the lane two hansoms were standing.

  6. There were two hansoms in the lane, and I put the supposed king into one of them and gave the cabman the address of the general's lodgings.

  7. As I expected, an attempt was made to follow him, only fortunately there were only two hansoms in the lane, and I took the second one and pretended to drive away whilst the spy was hurrying elsewhere in search of a conveyance.

  8. Linnet exclaimed, in an imploring tone, “I hate these hansoms so.

  9. As he stood in front of Delmonico's lighting a cigarette one night he saw two hansoms drawn up close to the curb, waiting for a chance drunken fare.

  10. We raced all over town in those hansoms and Maury sat up with his driver, don't you remember?

  11. For a little he stood stock-still on the pavement watching the throng of people and the perpetual buses and drays and the jingling hansoms picking their way through it all.

  12. They joined a jingling string of other hansoms and sped swiftly through the exhilarating bustle of the streets.

  13. He had dined at Lubi's, and had gone on with Lord Muchross and Lord Snowdown to the Royal, and they had returned in many hansoms and with many courtesans to drink at Lubi's.

  14. The women sprang gaily from hansoms and pushed through the swing-doors.

  15. Several hansoms passed, but they were engaged.

  16. Through the murmurous night air he dreamily noted the creeping hansoms and the crawling L trains and the street-cars, the minute corpuscles of the now languid life-blood with which the huge city would soon run so feverishly.

  17. They would go down in hansoms and meet at the Crown and Sceptre at 7.

  18. He supposed they would pick up the others at Montpellier Square, and swop hansoms there?

  19. Afternoon dress is the correct attire for the park after midday, and cabs and hansoms are not seen on the Row during riding and driving hours.

  20. The bridegroom generally provides hansoms or coupés to drive his ushers to the church from their respective residences.

  21. They can take hansoms or cabs, or for that matter go to the rendezvous in the car or stage.

  22. Other hansoms flashed past him, the occupant of each with his mind fixed on one idea--dinner.

  23. He walked away to the window: through the opened casement he could hear the tinkle of passing hansoms on the Embankment below, whistles of door-keepers, and the hoot of steam tugs on the river.

  24. I said when we had skirted the shallow drive, avoiding a couple of hansoms that stood there with the cabmen snug inside.

  25. I say, don't those hansoms tell us all about his pals!

  26. Omnibuses, which ply every hour between the suburbs and the town, and hansoms are the other vehicles most in use.

  27. This roused him, and he permitted himself to drift with the crowd along to the Circus, where, having glanced at the address upon the card the spy had given him, he hailed one of the hansoms which were slowly filing past.

  28. When term commenced, they would dash up to their colleges in hansoms and step out confident and smiling.

  29. At the end of term they would step into their hansoms and vanish, lords of creation, in search of a well-earned rest.

  30. Oxford hansoms are the worst in the world, but seldom has a ride been more delightful.

  31. Mr. Lenox's young brother introduced these friends as Fizzy and Shrimp, and then they packed themselves into three hansoms and drove off.

  32. In the street beneath, hansoms were jingling along, bringing people home from the restaurants.

  33. From hansoms she went on to the awful iniquity of having left the house unguarded; from that to Sarah's holiday, of which she disapproved strongly.

  34. She started on the vulgarity and danger of racing in hansoms in London.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hansoms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.