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Examples
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Charing-cross to Temple-bar, just to shew her what it was to see a little of the world.
Camilla 2008
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I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.
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‘Why, Sir, Fleet-street has a very animated appearance; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-cross.’
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_Charing-cross_, where she married a _Bricklayer_ for her second
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.
Act II. Scene I. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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I am persuaded that when Count Saxe, [1] with ten thousand men, is within a day's march of London, people will be hiring windows at Charing-cross and Cheapside to see them pass by.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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Robinson was Kill'd at the Taking of a Place, (I think Basing House) by Harrison, he that was after Hang'd at Charing-cross, who refused him Quarter, and Shot him in the Head when he had laid down his Arms; abusing Scripture at the same time, in saying, Cursed is he that doth the Work of the Lord negligently.
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Let us take a walk from Charing-cross to White-chapel, through, I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world; what is there in any of these shops (if you except gin-shops,) that can do any human being any harm? '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'Why, Sir, Fleet-street has a very animated appearance; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-cross [995].'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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We engrave his Portrait, from a photograph supplied by Mr.A. M. Bailey's American agency, Northumberland-court, Charing-cross.
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