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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

  • I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.

    The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • ‘Why, Sir, Fleet-street has a very animated appearance; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-cross.’

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • _Charing-cross_, where she married a _Bricklayer_ for her second

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • 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

  • '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

  • We engrave his Portrait, from a photograph supplied by Mr.A. M. Bailey's American agency, Northumberland-court, Charing-cross.

    The New President of the United States 1865

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