"There is an old pearl dealer here; a regular character, looks like a cross between a Jew pawn-broker and a Christian cabdriver.
"The Second String"
Nat Gould
You count your task by the hour, like a cabdriver.
"Artists' Wives"
Alphonse Daudet
They looked like nuns of some obscure order; they were deaf and blind as ramparts of sandbags; nothing less callous to human life than a Parisian cabdriver could have burst a way through them.
"Some Experiences of an Irish R.M."
E. OE. Somerville Martin Ross