hackney coach
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Origin of hackney coach
First recorded in 1615–25
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“Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the Barnet road.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
In the midst of the multitude was a hackney coach, following the sledges, and in it was the gentle Fanny Lester, accompanied by a relative and a female friend.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
You must, please, take a hackney coach to your house and bring me back every line I ever wrote to you, that we may burn them.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Will one of you order me a chair or hackney coach?
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
We were tired, we were not fit to be seen, but I thought it right to accept Walter Scott's cordial invitation, sent for a hackney coach, and just as we were, without dressing, we went.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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