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taxicab, a motor cab or car, fitted with a taximeter that registers the distance covered by the car and at the same time registers the fare.
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Leicester Square and Piccadilly, the names, respectively, of a well-known street crossing and of a street in London.
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hansoms, a kind of horse carriage named after its English inventor J. A. Hansom. A hansom has two wheels, while four-wheelers have four wheels.
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curb, the edging of upright stones set along the margin of the street to separate the sidewalk from the roadbed.
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sou’westerly, southwesterly. The wind blew from the southwest.
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half-crown, an English coin worth two and a half shillings.
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furrows, deep lines on the face.
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coherent, attached or stuck together; sticking to the bones.
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done with, finished.
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incoherently, without agreement to the question asked; inconsistently.
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Thirty-five year . The uneducated cab-driver uses year where his better educated cousin would use years .
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I don’t blame nobody, meaning,I don’t blame anybody .
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short of food, lacking in food; destitute of food; without food.
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eighteenpenny, an adjective here, denoting a fare of eighteen pence or one and a half shillings.
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bob, slang in England for a shilling. Bob is the plural as well as the singular form of the word.
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broke, bankrupt, ruined, without money.
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very free, very liberal or generous with their money.
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“stood over,” leaned over. The horse was weak; its legs could hardly support the weight of the body; and therefore the knees were bent out to an unusual degree.
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innumerable ribs, because it was so skinny and emaciated, therefore the ribs stood out very plainly.
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grub, food.
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workhouse, in England, a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are maintained at public expense and made to do work.
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’ard, hard.
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broke, crushed, destroyed, shattered, took away.
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fund, a sum of money raised to help them.
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mint of money, a very large sum of money, enough to fill a mint, the place where money is coined.
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