Hansom

(noun.) a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers.

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• As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Under the Georgian porch she paused again, scanning the street for a hansom. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my new acquaintance to Baker Street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She explains that by the difference between a 'bus and a hansom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Oh, thanks, she stammered; and at that moment her eye caught a hansom drifting down Madison Avenue, and she hailed it with a desperate gesture. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• And my words were true, for shortly after eight a hansom dashed up to the door and our friend got out of it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Well, missus,' said he, 'I ha seen the lady, and she were young and hansom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The resources of New York are rather meagre, he said; but I'll find a hansom first, and then we'll invent something. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In Oxford Street we picked up a hansom and drove to an address in Hampstead. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Mrs. Fisher drew Lily toward the hansom with friendly authority. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Veneering then says to Mrs Veneering, 'We must work,' and throws himself into a Hansom cab. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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