hackney carriage in a sentence

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1. The vehicle quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London.
2. A Hackney carriage corresponded to a modern taxi rather than a bus-and did tend to be used by the wealthy.
3. On becoming a sergeant he was also appointed an inspector of weights and measures, common lodging houses, hackney carriages and explosives.
4. It supports the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers " Magical Taxi Run'to Disneyland Paris each year for children with life-threatening illnesses.
5. After retirement from football, Dickens went on to live in Barking and work as a black cab ( hackney carriage ) driver.
6. In time, second-hand clarences came to be used as hackney carriages, earning the nickname'growler'from the sound they made on London's cobbled streets.
7. The Civic Suite and Information Centre includes the Council Chamber, Committee Rooms, Transportation and Hackney Carriage Office and is located on Hockley Road.
8. All taxis are registered under the term " Hackney Carriage " and carry the letter H at the beginning of their number plates.
9. The first documented " hackney coach "  the forerunner of the more generic " hackney carriage "  operated in London in 1621.
10. The high ceilings are a holdover from 19th-century English laws that required horse-drawn hackney carriages to have enough room for gentlemen wearing top hats.