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  • ‘De whole t’ing wid de Embankment is gettin’ to sleep early.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • Like the Bakerloo line, some of it's alignment follows a sewerage system built at the same time known as the Embankment, from which one station takes it's name.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BishoiH 2010

  • Like the Bakerloo line, some of it's alignment follows a sewerage system built at the same time known as the Embankment, from which one station takes it's name.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BishoiH 2010

  • Like the Bakerloo line, some of it's alignment follows a sewerage system built at the same time known as the Embankment, from which one station takes it's name.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BishoiH 2010

  • Like the Bakerloo line, some of it's alignment follows a sewerage system built at the same time known as the Embankment, from which one station takes it's name.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BishoiH 2010

  • We had reached the Embankment, which is an ancient docking and warehousing district along the riverbank north of the Landing.

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • And the Embankment was the best possible place to be, she decided, with the lights reflected on the Thames and the hundreds of lights from the city's windows.

    A Good Wife Neels, Betty 1999

  • Then again, but for bridges Londoners could not see the river except from the Embankment, which is an empty sort of place, or from the windows of hotels.

    On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Needle to the Embankment is a pure illusion generated by the fact that for purposes of daily intercourse its emphasis is needless.

    The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

  • 'I think the Embankment is the finest spot in all London,' he said.

    The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett 1899

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