Cabmen

An unreasoning panic seized the cabmen and chauffeurs; they were possessed with the fixed idea that no bridge across the Seine was safe, and no bribe would persuade them to cross the river; while they refused to take fares for even the shortest distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cabmen ask me if I am somehow connected with you. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

Bad as London cabmen are, one would welcome the sight of one of them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This remark was a failure, for no one intimated, by word or sign, the slightest knowledge of the manners and customs of cabmen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But, next to our very particular friends, hackney – coachmen, cabmen and cads, whom we admire in proportion to the extent of their cool impudence and perfect self – possession, there is no class of people who amuse us more than London apprentices. ❋ Unknown (2007)

First, there is the expressive pantomime of every one of the eighteen cabmen on the stand, the moment you raise your eyes from the ground. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sunday passed over, and Mr. Percy Noakes became unusually fidgety — rushing, constantly, to and from the Steam Packet Wharf, to the astonishment of the clerks, and the great emolument of the Holborn cabmen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All the neighbourhood, the cabmen, the police, the early potato-men, and the friends in yellow satin, know the young fellow, and he is called Little Bobby by some of the very worst reprobates in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The closed doors of fish and lobster shops open after service, and vomit out little Famish, who is either tipsy and quarrelsome — when he wants to fight the cabmen; or drunk and helpless — when some kind friend (in yellow satin) takes care of him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The policemen about the Haymarket know the little creature, and the early cabmen salute him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I swear fearfully at cabmen and women; brandish my bludgeon, and perhaps knock down a little man or two with it: brag of the images which I break at the shooting-gallery, and pass amongst my friends for a whiskery fire-eater, afraid of neither man nor dragon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then the policeman, who had been trying to pass the barman, rushed in, followed by one of the cabmen, gripped the wrist of the invisible hand that collared Marvel, was hit in the face and went reeling back. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

General was not in that condition when the sneers and jokes of these young beggars had much effect upon him: the cabmen and watermen at the cabstand knew him and passed their comments upon him: the policemen gazed after him and warned the boys off him, with looks of scorn and pity; what did the scorn and pity of men, the jokes of ribald children, matter to the General? ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was a sumptuous nature, perhaps, that could not be brought to regard money; a natural generosity and kindness; and possibly a petty vanity that was pleased with praise, even with the praise of waiters and cabmen. ❋ Unknown (2006)