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He earned much money; he bought the place "Gadshill," near Rochester, which he had coveted since childhood; but he was a free spender, and his great income was less than his fancied need.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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They date, like the carriers at Gadshill, from the death of Robin Ostler; 15 the succession of guards forms a dynasty in their eyes; coachmen are their ministers of state; and an upset is to them a greater incident than a change of administration.
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Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it as secure as sleep.
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Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid: yourself and I will not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.
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But the same restless energy is visible even in his life at Gadshill, which was his home from 1860 to 1870.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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During life he had expressed his desire for a private funeral, unheralded in the press, and he had thought of two or three quiet churches in the neighbourhood of Rochester and Gadshill.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Dickens lived during the greater part of his life in London, but in his later years near Rochester, at Gadshill, the scene of Falstaff's exploit.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Falstaff sustains the evening at the Boar's Head, he has ridden to Gadshill and back, forty-four miles!
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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[4] Dickens died at Gadshill, Kent, and was buried in Westminster
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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This was, however, only a Gadshill robbery, -- stealing stolen goods.
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