Almacks

I remember frequently to have met with the word "Almacks."

A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

Almacks was a house somewhere in the city, where a Mrs. Cornelys gave masquerades during the reign of George the

A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

Once more recommending to you the reinforcement of my strong-box and credit from all lawful sources and resources of mine to their practicable extent; for, after all, it is better playing at nations than gaming at Almacks or Newmarket; and requesting you to write to me as often as you can,

Two Letters from Greece by Lord Byron 2002

He'd even taken David to Almacks '? that bastion of respectability to which Leila Beaumont never had, never would be admitted in a million years, because she was a mere peasant.

Captives Of The Night Chase, Loretta 1994

After her encounter with Bradford at Almacks, Caroline declined all further invitations.

Rebellious Desire Julie Garwood 1986

There have been more "first affections" awakened in the rambles through the shades of Rosherville than in fifty Almacks, and five hundred times more matches in consequence, than ever took refuge in Gretna; and all this -- for a shilling!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Yet their skin is excessively delicate; and many of the small white hands I saw to-day, would create an envious feeling in more than one lady patroness of Almacks.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

Well! -- the St. Cecilia you must know (its counterparts are to be found in all our great cities) is a miniature Almacks -- a sort of leach-cloth, through which certain very respectable individuals must pass ere they can become the elite of our fashionable world.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Balls, Parties, Almacks, &c. This was no one more or less than Col. Leicester Stanhope come out with Jeremy Bentham under his arm to give the Greeks a constitution.

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910

It was delivered in a large and splendid kind of saloon -- that in which the great balls of Almacks are given.

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891