Bow-street

Bow-street runners, they had given up an even less respectable calling.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This small mistake being detected, Mr. Solmes, porteur of the little billet, would have been consigned to the custody of a Bow-street officer, but that I found means to relieve him, on condition of his making known to me the points of private history which I have just been communicating to you.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Bond-street of the fashionable world; as Bow-street was before.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various

Stretchers to be at the doors at half-past 2, and policemen to take up with their heads towards Bow-street.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

The change of Bow-street from fashion to the police, with the theatre still in attendance, reminds one of the spirit of the Beggar's Opera.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various

We think we recollect reading also, that in the same street, at one of the corners of Bow-street, was the tavern where Dryden held regal possession of the arm chair.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various

Arrived at Apothecaries 'Hall -- a building which he regards with a feeling of awe far beyond the Bow-street Police Office -- he takes his place amongst the anxious throng, and is at last called into a room, where two examiners politely request that he will favour them by sitting down at a table adorned with severe-looking inkstands, long pens, formal sheets of foolscap, and awfully-sized copies of the light entertaining works mentioned above.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

This was effected after some time in Pall Mall, London, by two Bow-street runners.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

Bow-street very different to what they had imagined; as Charles Mathews '

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

I said I would, and they said I should not, until we came to scuffling, and then one of them calling to some more, told them to take me to Bow-street, which they did; but I made them carry me though.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various