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" ... in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 73
1821
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The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England: With a Treatise on the Popular ...

John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate, so that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, so that they and others are to be had anywhere." But now, within two short months of this date, during...
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The Book of table-talk [ed. by C. MacFarlane].

Book - 1847 - 492 pages
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there is twenty...disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had every where as watermen are to be had by the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it, for, whereas...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 656 pages
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." — Ibid. vol. 1, p. 227. 1634. "HEBE are two rich women who bid hard for the Earl of Huntington ;...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 610 pages
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." — Ibid. vol. 1, p. 227. 1634. "HERE are two rich women who bid hard for the Earl of Huntington ;...
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Common-place Book

Robert Southey - Commonplace books - 1849 - 650 pages
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...had but at great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper."—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 227. 1634. " HERE are two rich women who bid hard for the Earl of Huntington;...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 428 pages
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...Everybody is much pleased with it. For whereas before couches could not be had but at great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." — Ibid. vol. 1,...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 428 pages
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disjwrse up and down, that they and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1850 - 502 pages
...places and perform their journeys at the same rate : so that sometimes there MAYPOLE IN THE STRAND. 329 is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side. Everybody is much pleased with it : for...
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Once Upon a Time, Volume 1

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...had. Other hackney -men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper."* Writing two months after, the same retailer of news says, "here is a proclamation coming forth about...
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The Progress of Locomotion: Being Two Lectures on the Advances Made in ...

Benjamin Scott (Chamberlain of the City of London.) - Locomotion - 1854 - 92 pages
...had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and performed their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the water-side. Every body is much pleased with it. For whereas before coaches could not be had...
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