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  • After which you could slip away by helicopter? to Gad's Hill and settle down with another cigar and some punch in the conservatory you built, specially decked out with the scarlet geraniums you liked best.

    A letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday 2012

  • Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal Josh Gad's portrayal of a slovenly missionary earned the actor a Tony nomination and new attention from Hollywood.

    A Missionary From the Borscht Belt Ellen Gamerman 2011

  • Gad's Hill, so famous for the exploits of Sir John Fallstaff we met a party of

    Letter 290 2009

  • There is a small grave at Gad's Hill to which Dickens would occasionally take a friend, and it was quite a privilege to stand with him beside the burial-place of little Dick, the family's favorite canary.

    The Public and Private Worlds of Charles Dickens 2002

  • There is a small grave at Gad's Hill to which Dickens would occasionally take a friend, and it was quite a privilege to stand with him beside the burial-place of little Dick, the family's favorite canary.

    The Public and Private Worlds of Charles Dickens 2002

  • At Gad's Hill, in point of fact, when the disguised Hal and Poins descend on the robbers, 'They all run away', while Falstaff, 'after a blow or two, runs away too'.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • The Prince rallies him by suggesting that 'you knew me, as you did when you ran away by Gad's Hill.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • He waddles grotesquely at Gad's Hill, the appointed location for the robbery, because Poins and Hal have taken away his horse.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Hal's practical joke, executed in concert with Poins, has been to don disguises and rob the robbers after the Gad's Hill escapade in order to see how Falstaff will lie about his exploits.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Yet he seems to understand now that Falstaff got the better of him in the Gad's Hill business.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

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