Minoret bowed to the great Unknown, wrung Bouvard by the hand, ran downstairs and hastened to a cab-stand which at that time was near the gates of a house since pulled down to make room for the ❋ Unknown (2006)
The people joked at the cab-stand about his appearance, as he took a carriage there, and told the driver to drive him to ❋ Unknown (2006)
The road began badly with a row of cheap, pretentious, insolvent-looking shops, a public-house, and a cab-stand, but, after an interval of little red villas that were partly hidden amidst shrubbery gardens, broke into a confusedly bright but not unpleasing High Street, shuttered that afternoon and sabbatically still. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
He walked down to the cab-stand and opened the rear door of the cab parked there and got in. ❋ McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- (2005)
When he got to the cab-stand, opposite the Melbourne Club, still suspecting he was followed, he hailed a hansom, and drove away in the direction of Spring Street. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An hour and a half later he escorted her to a cab-stand on the Rue de Rome. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“And could you tell me where is - the nearest cab-stand?” he shouted out to me again. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Next, he politely offered his arm, and led the way round the corner of the crescent, across a square, and into a by-street, which was rendered exceptionally lively by the presence of the local cab-stand. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The woman at the bar who served him looked at him wonderingly, staring into his face; and the pot-boy woke himself thoroughly that he might look at Burgo; and the waterman from the cab-stand stared at him; and women who came in for gin looked almost lovingly up into his eyes. ❋ Unknown (1993)
In the early 'nineties he kept the Arabi Pasha coffee-house opposite the cab-stand in the native town at Aden, where he dispensed tea and husk-coffee in little bowls of green-glazed earthenware, also raspberryade and other bright-coloured "minerals" in bottles, with a small lump of ice thrown in. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It was at one time intended to erect a handsome Crescent where the cab-stand is now. ❋ A Nonagenarian (N/A)
Patricia piloted her through the crowds to the cab-stand. ❋ Pemberton Ginther (N/A)
Below the cathedral at the foot of the Via S. Lorenzo is a cab-stand, whence drive by the church of Carignano and the Acqua Sola Gardens to the Via di Circonvallazione, commanding a series of beautiful views of ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
I have said that the hacks on the cab-stand were a sorry lot, and though I had chosen the brute which looked most promising in the whole contingent, I was not long in finding that I had no special reason to be proud of my choice. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
"I remember, not many years ago," interrupted the merry-faced guest, "a water-man, in attendance at the cab-stand at the top of the Haymarket, for a bribe of five shillings, tossed off a bottle of gin, upon which he dropped down insensible, and soon died." ❋ Various (N/A)
I had no sooner read this than, with the letter crumpled in my hand, I dashed into the street and made at full-speed for the nearest cab-stand. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
The custom-house is at the north end of the dock, and just outside the dock-gates are porters and a large cab-stand. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
_ -- The principal cab-stand is at the end of the Rue ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
In and about the Cours Belsunce, where there are a large cab-stand and an important tramway terminus, are some good second-class hotels, of which the best is the Hotel des Phocéens, 28 R. des Récolettes. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
In the Piazza Maria Novella there are omnibuses for Sesto Fiorentino and a large cab-stand. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
