Taxi Stand

The taxi-stand proposal doesn't require Albany's approval. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2011)

People from the Bloomberg administration and City Council members have been discussing the taxi-stand proposal with lobbyists and industry players, according to people familiar with the matter. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2011)

I think most people are in favor of the taxi-stand plan. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2011)

In a US city, Michigan I think, Moslem Pakistani taxi-drivers have taken over the taxi-stand at the airport. ❋ Lionheart (2007)

Pennsylvania Station, and he followed the familiar way to the taxi-stand, finding it grotesque and oddly stimulating to give his own address. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He rode down in the elevator as though it were a moon-kissed cloud, floated out to the taxi-stand on a star-spangled mist, slid into the cab and said, "Where can I catch the next rocket ship to Mars?" ❋ Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 (1957)

Swinging his stick up to a level with his shoulder at each stride, he raced to Fifty-ninth Street and the nearest taxi-stand. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

Station, and he followed the familiar way to the taxi-stand, finding it grotesque and oddly stimulating to give his own address. ❋ Unknown (1918)

He was on the point of going out to the taxi-stand and interrogating each driver in turn, when his eyes were caught by a smart suit-case that lay unattended on one of the seats. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

She had been dreading the walk to a taxi-stand, when she saw a car about to drive away from a house near by. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Whirling suddenly round to pursue yet another porter, Claire became aware of a figure in a long tweed coat standing on the space beside the taxi-stand, intently watching her movements. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them -- wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls 'cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all. ❋ Unknown (1918)