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L.B. Seeley, 169, Fleet-Street; Hazard And B.nns, B.th; and T. B.lgin, and T. Lambe, B.istol
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'I assure you,' says he, 'I thought I had fallen into their hands last night; for I observed two or three lusty black men that followed me half way up _Fleet-Street_, and mended their pace behind me, in proportion as I put on to get away from them.
The Coverley Papers Various
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Rodes_, next door to the _Bear-Tavern_ near _Bride-Lane_ in _Fleet-Street_, 1684.
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Nando's Coffee-house at the east corner of Inner Temple-lane, No. 17, Fleet-Street, by some confused with Groom's house, No. 16, was the favourite haunt of Lord Thurlow before he dashed into law practice.
All About Coffee 1909
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London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-Street, 1820.
Notes 1884
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As the book grew under his hands, he began to cast about for subscribers; and from the Fleet-Street coffee-house -- he had again left the Peckham school -- he addressed to his friends and relatives a series of letters of the most charming humour, which might have drawn subscriptions from a millstone.
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869
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What sort of England had he been familiar with when he was consorting with the meanest wretches -- the poverty stricken, the sick, and squalid -- in those Fleet-Street dens?
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869
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He was found not qualified; and returned, with his fine clothes, to his Fleet-Street den.
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869
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Holland to the ice-ribbed falls of the Rhine, may have heard from time to time that contest between singing-birds which he so imaginatively describes; but it was clearly the Fleet-Street author, living among books, who arrived at the conclusion that intermarriage of species is common among small birds and rare among big birds.
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869
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Besides, after all, Fleet-Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than among Skiddaw.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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