hansom in English

noun
1
a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage accommodating two inside, with the driver seated behind.
Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom , the driver asleep inside.
noun
    hansom cab

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "hansom" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "hansom", or refer to the context using the word "hansom" in the English Dictionary.

1. Hansom cabs were patented by the English architect Joseph Hansom.

2. He bolted into a hansom, and drove to the Goat's Club.

3. In a hansom — don't I know what time you rise?

4. Then, every evening - oh, the danger of it - home by hansom.

5. As he spoke, the hansom turned into the drive before the Foreign Office.

6. The name is an amalgam of the terms handsome Cabman and hansom cab.

7. Traffic had long left the streets. Hansom cabs had returned to their mews.

8. Traffic had long left the streets. Hansom cabs had returned to their mews. Sentencedict.com

9. How then could you get here so quickly without doing it in a hansom?

10. You are going to marry a tall and hansom guy. It's in the cards.

11. " I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony

12. I caught up with him on Exhibition Road, where he had run into the street and flagged down a hansom.

13. 18 The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.

14. After partying hard the night before, Sophia splits from the group to pursue Rob, a hansom young tourist from the states.

15. The Hansom Cabman is a 1924 silent black and white short American film starring Harry Langdon directed by Harry Edwards and produced by Mack Sennett.

16. "That young tutor is an interesting fellow: we had some awfully good talk after dinner about books and things, " he threw out tentatively in the hansom.

17. Tibet, Tartary And Mongolia Their Social And Political Condition, And The Religion Of Boodh, As There ExistingHenry T, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century European Cultural TheoristsPaul Hansom, The World Market for Chloroprene Rubber (CR): A 2016 Global Trade PerspectiveIcon Group International, ChiniquyMarcel Trudel