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Nor was he a professional portraitist who plied for hire.

Carmen organised themselves into a fraternity and plied for hire.

These vehicles are not permitted to ply for hire and must be pre-booked by telephone.

Black taxis ply for hire in the area, and there are minicab offices.

By good fortune, down in the square, plying for hire, a ratcatcher !

(It is still the licensing authority for those plying for hire on the Thames.)

It is illegal for PHVs to ply for hire.

The discarded coaches of aristocratic families, complete with their coat of arms, were among the first hackney carriages to ply for hire.

A two-in-hand waiting opposite, which Lefevre had assumed to be plying for hire, trotted sedately up to the stage door.

And the boatmen down on the water, plying for hire their small craft, already dangerously overloaded with fugitives and their goods.

He augmented his meager income by plying for hire as a ferryman, ferrying passengers across to Greenwich, and sometimes he followed a more grisly trade.

When the North Midland Railway opened in 1840, carriages plied for hire from Ambergate station.

A. The Naval Encyclopedia, published in Philadelphia in 1881, defines a waterman as "a man who plies for hire on the water; a boatman."

Somehow he would get rid of the leaking drums and even, perhaps, ply for hire between the islands, renaming the old tub after his mother, Velvet Mae.

Presently, the ceremony involves cars, rather than carts, and involves those who wish to voluntarily take part, regardless of whether they wish to ply for hire or not.

Before 1924, all taxis plied for hire without a means of recording the mileage, other than the driver himself calculating the fare according to how far he drove his passengers.

In the day they were drowned in traffic-noises, but everything was quiet now except for the tring of 'bicycle-bells where the trishaw-drivers plied for hire.

The Carmen participate in the ceremony of Cart Marking, which originated in the rule that no cart could ply for hire unless licensed by the Carmen.

Taxis The familiar Black Cabs are the only ones allowed to ply for hire and are only available if their orange lights are on (tricky to see on summer nights).

Taxi statistical releases Taxi statistical tables Taxis (or 'hackney carriages') are available for immediate hire and can be hailed in the street (known as 'plying for hire').

At the privately owned Chelmsford railway station taxi rank, only the 116 Chelmsford Taxi Association affiliated hackney carriages are permitted to ply for hire at the station.

Taxis also ply for hire near the station, with dedicated taxis available for passengers headng to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which is only about two (2) kilometers from the station.

They did not ply for hire, like the common prostitutes who flaunted themselves on the quayside and in the streets; they were not compelled to consort with any chance corner like the girls in ordinary brothels.

Robbers, sudden illness, the building catching fire-perhaps their boat capsized: the boatmen plying for hire were- "When I got back to the King's Arms expecting to find her there after giving her evidence, I was handed this note by the innkeeper."

Section 7 of the Act gave the Minister the power to make an order declaring any thoroughfare in the City of London or the Metropolitan Police District a "restricted street", in which no additional omnibuses other than those already operating there could "ply for hire".

She was stoned to the eyeballs and plying for trade to pay for her next fix.

A vehicle and/or driver licensed by a specific authority may only ply for trade (if a Hackney) or pick up pre-booked fares in the authority area they are licensed for.

The fat, stubble-chinned proprietor, called Nichos Dakaris, was here to serve a bottle of good red wine to Lazarides, and the girl was here because she had a black eye and couldn't ply for trade along the waterfront.

Despite my other concerns, I was beginning to feel a little more cheerful, as Pharaoh continued, 'From this day forward it will be an offence punishable by a fine of ten gold rings for a harlot to ply for trade in any public place, other than one set aside by the magistrates for that purpose.'