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Definition of Hansoms
1. hansom [n] - See also: hansom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hansoms
Literary usage of Hansoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1904)
"'I guess I'll want six-and-a-hn!f hansoms, boy!'" he raised his right hand a
little and waved the pen like a delicious menace at Nina. ..."
2. Fifty Years of My Life in the World of Sport at Home and Abroad by John Dugdale Astley (1895)
"... Preference for hansoms over 'Buses or Underground Hallways—How it took Three
Traps to Convey me Two Miles—Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire—My Match ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"Court " hansoms still ply for hire, and appear to be well patronised, but they
are not ... These hansoms were far superior to any others plying for hire, ..."
4. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1911)
"The 'hansoms' (so called after their inventor) are two-wheeled vehicles with
seats for two persons ... They are usually less well-horsed than the hansoms. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"There they rush, the fleet-wheeled hansoms of Piccadilly, as though they were
parts of an elegant monumental frieze. And thus London reveals her true ..."
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