Sentence examples for memoir a cab from inspiring English sources

As Treglown makes clear in his succinct and sympathetic portrait, Pritchett (1900-97) had a life-long dread of the bailiff's knock, following an impoverished childhood which became the material for his memoir A Cab at the Door.

The writing is simple but not simplified; it reminds me of the casual but illuminating way V. S. Pritchett explains the leather trade in his memoir "A Cab at the Door".

His non-fiction works include the memoirs "A Cab at the Door" (1968) and "Midnight Oil" (1971), and many collections of essays on literary biography and criticism.

He is the author of travel books, from Marching Spain (1928) to At Home and Abroad (1989), and two volumes of memoirs, A Cab at the Door (1968) and Midnight Oil (1971).

Greenberg has worked as a postal clerk, a stringer in Argentina (where he learned the language), a Spanish teacher to go-go boys in Lower Manhattan, an interpreter for Spanish-­speaking defendants in court, a script doctor, a ghost writer for other people's memoirs, a cab driver, a waiter (first in a trendy restaurant, ultimately in a falafel stand).

In the memoir, she recalls sharing a cab with the singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker after a night of music in Greenwich Village.

Into a cab.

I hailed a cab.

I drove a cab.

I'll call a cab.

Downstairs, Robert hailed a cab.