Boodle's

The academy is still one of the city's most impressive buildings, a fitting companion to its neighbour on the Mound, Playfair's National Gallery of Scotland.0131-225 6671No 28 St James's Street, home of the private members' club Boodle's, was originally the Savoir-Vivre club house.

Georgian architecture: examples from the era 2011

Early on Friday evening, however, while engaged with Corringham and Riseley at Boodle's, he received a summons from his great-aunt, asking him to return home at once on a matter of extreme urgency.

Gatlinburg 2010

There was as little hardship in giving up attendance at a Saturday concert evening, instead spending time with his cronies at Boodle's, as there was in driving out of town on Monday for a couple of nights to witness a prize fight instead of attending two insipid evening parties.

Gatlinburg 2010

From the mixed, though polite, company of Boodle's, White's, and Brooks's, I must honourably distinguish a weekly society, which was instituted in the year 1764, and which still continues to flourish, under the title of the Literary Club.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

I'll never say a word against Boodle's again, says I to myself; at least there you don't have to sit with your back to the wall.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

I'll never say a word against Boodle's again, says I to myself; at least there you don't have to sit with your back to the wall.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

He gambled at Boodle's, a club he did not often frequent, though he had been a member for years, and won upward of three hundred pounds.

Ungrateful Governess Balogh, Mary 1988

He had looked in on an old crony on the way home from Boodle's, purely on drunken whim.

Ungrateful Governess Balogh, Mary 1988

A far cry from White's Club, or Boodle's, or Buck's, or Bertie Wooster's Drones, is the association imagined by Leonard Michaels in his novel The Men's Club.

Clubland Thompson, John 1981

Why, to be sure it may tighten you up for five or six years; but then do not stop quite so long in London: make your season there rather shorter, and do not go so often to Newmarket, and keep away from White's or Boodle's, and do not be so mad as to throw away any more of those paltry thousands in contesting the county.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various