The New York hackmen are licensed plunderers, against whose extortions there is neither remedy nor appeal. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Panamanian–any Panamanian, regardless of position or social status–was a “Spiggotty” or “Spig,” terms supposedly derived in earlier years from the erroneous claim of Panama City hackmen that they could “speaks-da-English.” ❋ DAVID McCULLOUGH. (2005)
Island, you are met, not by hackmen, but by glass-bottom boatmen: ❋ Various (N/A)
These cabbies have more nearly the air of our own noble hackmen than any we have seen in England. ❋ Various (N/A)
The hackmen would rather drive your dead body around town for nothing than let you enjoy the luxury of walking about unmolested. ❋ Various (N/A)
This is one of the simplest principles in homely every-day criticism, serving truth-seekers, wherever wordy war rages, whether among statesmen or hackmen. ❋ Various (N/A)
"For," said I, "if you offered that obsolete fraction of a dollar to the turbulent hackmen of our cities, you would meet with offensive demonstrations of contempt." ❋ Various (N/A)
Before a funeral at the home, it is necessary for some member of the family to receive the relatives from the distance, and the very intimate friends, and see that they are given necessary refreshment, and their return to trains, if they must leave immediately after the funeral, thoroughly understood by the hackmen. ❋ Edith B. Ordway (N/A)
But mere grandeur of nature has no educating effect upon the soul of man; else Switzerland would not have supplied Paris with footmen, and the hackmen of Niagara would spare the tourist. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
But mere grandeur of nature has no educating effect upon the soul of man; else, Switzerland would not have supplied Paris with footmen, and the hackmen of Niagara would spare the tourist. ❋ Various (N/A)
The outraged wives of the hackmen assembled, and, to express their indignation at the tax, mobbed the offending members of Parliament on their way from the House. ❋ Various (N/A)
She victimizes them with nearly two thousand licensed hackmen; she licenses twenty-two hundred car - and omnibus-drivers to carry them over twenty-nine different stage-routes and ten horse-railroads, in six hundred and seventy-one omnibuses and nearly as many cars, connecting intimately with every part of the city, and averaging ten up-and-down trips per day. ❋ Various (N/A)
The New York hackmen, for instance, are very obliging and attentive; but if it would not seem ungrateful, I would hazard the statement that their attentions are unremitting to the degree of being almost embarrassing, and proffered to the verge of obtrusiveness. ❋ Various (N/A)
If there are other contemporary French sculptors than Rodin their names elude me at the moment; yet I have no doubt that some ten or fifteen of these hackmen have their names emblazoned in the books of all the so-called "honour" societies in Paris. ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)
The clamoring hotel-runners and expressmen and hack-drivers confused me, and after three successively insolent hackmen had touched my arm and leered up into my face with their "Hack, miss?" ❋ Madeleine (1919)
Then frequent trains, unknown during the week, begin with the setting of the sun to disgorge Americans of all grades and sizes through the clicking turnstiles into the arms of gesticulating hackmen, some to squirm away afoot between the carriages, all to be swallowed up within ten minutes in the great sea of "colored" people. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
Nor is this increase due entirely to semi-personal service occupations for the class of clerks, bookkeepers, _etc. _, had increased from 236 in 1890 to 456 in 1900; draymen, hackmen, and teamsters numbered 1,439 in 1900 as compared with 476 in 1890, an increase of 202.3 per cent. ❋ George Edmund Haynes (1920)
But it is significant that in 1890 there were among the male population 236 bookkeepers, accountants, _etc. _, 476 draymen, hackmen, and teamsters, and 427 were engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits. ❋ George Edmund Haynes (1920)
