cab-stand

The people joked at the cab-stand about his appearance, as he took a carriage there, and told the driver to drive him to

Vanity Fair 2006

Minoret bowed to the great Unknown, wrung Bouvard by the hand, ran downstairs and hastened to a cab-stand which at that time was near the gates of a house since pulled down to make room for the

Ursula 2006

The road began badly with a row of cheap, pretentious, insolvent-looking shops, a public-house, and a cab-stand, but, after an interval of little red villas that were partly hidden amidst shrubbery gardens, broke into a confusedly bright but not unpleasing High Street, shuttered that afternoon and sabbatically still.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

He walked down to the cab-stand and opened the rear door of the cab parked there and got in.

No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

When he got to the cab-stand, opposite the Melbourne Club, still suspecting he was followed, he hailed a hansom, and drove away in the direction of Spring Street.

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 2003

An hour and a half later he escorted her to a cab-stand on the Rue de Rome.

Bel Ami 2003

“And could you tell me where is - the nearest cab-stand?” he shouted out to me again.

The Possessed 2003

Next, he politely offered his arm, and led the way round the corner of the crescent, across a square, and into a by-street, which was rendered exceptionally lively by the presence of the local cab-stand.

Armadale 2003

The woman at the bar who served him looked at him wonderingly, staring into his face; and the pot-boy woke himself thoroughly that he might look at Burgo; and the waterman from the cab-stand stared at him; and women who came in for gin looked almost lovingly up into his eyes.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

I have said that the hacks on the cab-stand were a sorry lot, and though I had chosen the brute which looked most promising in the whole contingent, I was not long in finding that I had no special reason to be proud of my choice.

In Direst Peril David Christie Murray