Translation for "hackney-carriage" to spanish
Translation examples
Ryszard and Julian descended into the steaming street and hired a hackney carriage to take them to their hotel.
Ryszard y Julián bajaron a la calle, de la que se alzaba vapor, y subieron a un coche de alquiler para ir a su hotel.
I was going along Park Street in a hackney carriage, and as I passed St. Xavier's College I found it had started growing rapidly and was fast getting impossibly high within its enveloping haze.
Yo iba por Park Street en un coche de alquiler y, al pasar por el Colegio de San Javier, encontré que había empezado a crecer rápidamente y que a gran paso alcanzaba una altura imposible dentro de su bruma envolvente.
They passed a set of stairs where two women and a child had just been rowed ashore from a passenger ship and were waiting for their baggage and probably hoping to hail a passing hackney carriage as well.
Pasaron junto a unas escaleras por las cuales habían subido dos mujeres y un niño que acababan de llegar a tierra en bote, procedentes de un barco de pasajeros y que aguardaban que les llevaran su equipaje y seguramente también que pasara algún coche de alquiler.
And what to wear at night when, in the greatest secrecy, you convey your week-old daughter out of the house in Piccadilly and into a hackney carriage to Little Titchfield Street, where she must be left with a wet nurse until you can figure out how to reclaim the baby as another’s offspring who has been committed to your care.
Y qué vestir por la noche cuando, en el mayor secreto, sacas a tu hija de una semana de la casa de Piccadilly y la metes en un coche de alquiler para ir a Little Titchfield Street, donde debes dejarla a una nodriza hasta que idees la manera de reclamar al bebé como vástago de otra mujer que han dejado a tu cuidado.
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