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What may be done in this way to Lord Mayors by common councilmen who like Mansion-house crumbs, I do not know; but kennel crumbs must be very sweet to a large class of sportsmen.
Hunting Sketches 2004
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From the Tunnel went to Billingsgate-market -- confiscated a basket of suspicious shrimps, and ordered them to be conveyed to the Mansion-house.
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various
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I have some thoughts of recommending him to offer the very statue we talk of for the front of the Mansion-house.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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It was immediately sent down to the Mansion-house in the Country, where it is to be seen finely incased, and is shewn to all Strangers as the most valuable Rarity of the Family.
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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Mansion-house -- you have of course given up all hopes of any interest
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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As he gave the word "Halt" at the Mansion-house door.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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Mansion-house, -- it was not quite so black then, as it is now, -- and he loved the great lumbering state coach and the little gingerbread sheriffs 'coaches, and loved the aldermen, and deputies and common-councilmen and liverymen.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various
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BROOK is the last village we pass till we reach Freshwater: much the same character as the others: the Mansion-house, which is surrounded with wood, being the only object to notice, besides the little church, which we shall presently pass, posted solitarily on an eminence near the foot of the down.
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Little anecdotes are interspersed, concerning Harriet, of Coventry-street, who didn't mind her stops; and James, behind the Mansion-house, who knew everybody's appetite, that enliven the descriptive portions of the work, which is in its very inappropriateness the more amusing, and cannot be read without reaping both information and instruction on topics which no other author would have had the temerity to discuss.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters from the Mansion-house.
Persuasion 1892
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