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Ruby Katia Winter is an exotic dancer with a dark past, and her shady East-end outfit is determined to promote her to the rank of call girl.
Night Junkies (2007) | Happy Share Scott at 5:52 AM 2009
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Statistitians will tell you that the Glasgows population will rise quickest in the East-end over the next ten years.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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It was naturally at the East-end, in London proper, that the flood-tide, as it were, of tavern life set in, among the seafarers, in the heart of industrial activity; and the anecdotes and glimpses which we enjoy show, just what might have been guessed, that these houses often became scenes of riotous excess and debauch.
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Houses in the East-end of London were said to have been bought and sold, without payment of the purchase money as to the buying, and with receipt of the purchase money as to the selling.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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Marmaduke had acquired was repulsive to him, and had induced him to tell his wife more than once that Sir this or Sir that could not be fitting associates for a poor East-end clergyman.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Of visiting society within a distance of three or four miles there was none but what was afforded by the families of other East-end clergymen.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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East-end overcoat the tail of a haddock protruded from its paper.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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Without a word of warning, her husband announced that he had taken a clerkship and was going to remove immediately to the East-end.
New Grub Street 2003
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Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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