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Examples
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He does a terrific job subtly morphing Danny's East-End accent into an upper-crust West-End one.
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The East-End Underground points us to a study done by the Caledon Institute.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2006 Archives 2006
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She called Howard Beatty a "filthy, half-breed, East-End, slothy beast".
Archive 2006-09-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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She called Howard Beatty a "filthy, half-breed, East-End, slothy beast".
Axinar: Joy Suffering From Cordrazine Overdose? Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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The gang man's East-End upbringing had been grim and he'd never gotten a lick of boost, unlike Goodcastle, whose parents had come from a pleasant part of Surrey.
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The gang man's East-End upbringing had been grim and he'd never gotten a lick of boost, unlike Goodcastle, whose parents had come from a pleasant part of Surrey.
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They are surrounded by the drunkenness, immorality and gambling of the East-End streets ... in the midst of the very refuse of our civilization, and yet ... whether they become bootmakers, tailors, cabinet-makers, glaziers, or dealers, the Jewish inhabitants of the East End rise in the social scale. 9
Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London. Robert F. Haggard Robert F. Haggard 1993
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The smile that an East-End Coster smiles, by a stout policeman riled;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 Various
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Soon afterwards he was ordained, was plunged ruthlessly into an East-End parish, and disappeared for a time from view.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various
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Really, dear Lady DAMPIER, if people see nothing to object in it _here_, I don't see why they should be more particular at the East-End!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 Various
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