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hansom cab

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Noun1.hansom cabhansom cab - a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers
carriage, equipage, rig - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses


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Observing that they passed no other hansom cab, but only vans and waggons, and that not one of the thousand men and women she saw was either a gentleman or a lady, Mrs.
An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
Later, on an anniversary, she was taken by her mother through the fog in a hansom cab, and given a large bunch of bright, sweet-scented flowers to lay upon his tomb.
 
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