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1. The tax of five shillings a-week upon every hackney coach, and that of ten shillings a-year upon every hackney chair, so far as it is advanced by the different keepers of such coaches and chairs, is exactly enough proportioned to the extent of their respective dealings
2. moved east to sort out the debris of Hackney
3. She stepped out of a hackney cab in front of the house and was met by Bridget who gave her a big hug
4. The hackney coach bounces over yet another run in the road, and I wonder for the umpteenth time at my own stupidity in doing this rather than just riding Bera
5. When we reach Narif I have the hackney driver drop Tristan off at his brother’s house
6. When the hackney pulls up outside the inn, I let him hand me out
7. He only stared, watching the lantern-lit hackney coaches flit here and there through the streets; watching the candles-in-windows, symbols of Warock
8. was offered a job in Hackney
9. They hailed a black cab and asked to go to the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney
10. She then went out of the lodging and hired a hackney coach to take
11. An hour and a half later Maguire and Walden parked their car in Bodney Road just off Downs Park Road in Hackney
12. Downs Road and Downs Park Road are separated by the green fields of Hackney Downs
13. Hackney Downs is not quite a square but it almost is and it is largely bare except for the trees that stretch around the perimeter and which criss-cross from the four corners, making an oasis of trees in the centre
14. Then I stood stock still as it was announced that the body of a woman had been found in a Hackney park, that it was a young woman, and that unconfirmed information suggested she had been mutilated
15. Quickly I began surfing the terrestrial television channels and found they all had broken into their regular programmes with news just in that the body of a woman had been discovered stuffed in black plastic bags in the undergrowth in Hackney Downs
16. From Hackney to a limo fucks with their heads, they
17. The pack-saddle being secured, as Don Quixote was about to lift up his enchanted mistress in his arms and put her upon her beast, the lady, getting up from the ground, saved him the trouble, for, going back a little, she took a short run, and putting both hands on the croup of the ass she dropped into the saddle more lightly than a falcon, and sat astride like a man, whereat Sancho said, "Rogue! but our lady is lighter than a lanner, and might teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to mount; she cleared the back of the saddle in one jump, and without spurs she is making the hackney go like a zebra; and her damsels are no way behind her, for they all fly like the wind;" which was the truth, for as soon as they saw Dulcinea mounted, they pushed on after her, and sped away without looking back, for more than half a league
18. For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it appeared a she-ass), she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my head reel, and poisoned my very heart
19. Coming closer, he distinguished among them a lady of graceful mien, on a pure white palfrey or hackney caparisoned with green trappings and a silver-mounted side-saddle
20. "The sight of the advertisement made me desirous of taking refuge with my uncle, let what would be the consequence; and I repaired in a hackney coach
21. This plebeian Don Juan observed me from behind a hackney car and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, such as are sold after dark on Paris boulevards, insulting to any lady
22. From the left arrives a jingling hackney car
23. He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa
24. And he's been a Prize Hackney, too, in his time—that was the time before you knew him, but you can still tell it on him at a glance, if you understand anything about horses
25. “Come!” commanded Coxtart, stepping heavily into the Hackney Coach, with the Driver’s Assistance
26. I could scarce believe my Ears! Did he think I would so lightly abandon my Child upon the Hope of others? Had he ne’er seen a Woman give birth, that he thought it such a Trifle, a Fiddling Thing—like buying a Pott of Paint and losing it in a Hackney Coach, or e’en losing a gold Watch Case to a Cut-Purse?
27. The hackney sledges bumped on the ice-glazed snow, and creaked over the stones
28. I was detailed to go out and repair the line with a young Cockney from Hackney
29. He turned towards the car and shouted inside, "Dalston Junction, change here for Hackney, Bow, and Poplar
30. The sight that met our eyes was this: Gravely walking down the middle of the street were two of the "Hackney Ghurkas," the foremost of whom was dressed in a frock coat and top hat, evidently the property of the village maire, and leading a decorated mule upon the head of which was tied the most gaudy "creation" which ever adorned a woman's head
31. My sick companion, who balanced me on the other side of the camel, was a member of the London Regiment affectionately known as the Hackney Gurkhas
32. Peter's Street, Hackney Road, E