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Examples
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These plodding elves, from Grub-street to the Row.
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Grub-street regiment, of the third story, and under the tattered banner of scribbling volunteers!
Cecilia 2008
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In pleasant reference to himself and Mr. Hoole, as brother authours, he often said, ‘Let you and I, Sir, go together, and eat a beef-steak in Grub-street.’
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Grub-street school didst thou suck in the clements of thy erudition.
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Mr. Hoole told him, he was born in Moorfields, and had received part of his early instruction in Grub-street.
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Grub-street Garreteers are guilty of this Injustice when, I am sorry to say it,
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A floor near the sky in Grub-street is no pen-spot now; but down fifty fathoms deep in Portland Place, or
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various
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_Astrologers_ of _Grub-street_: My Enquiries are a little more sublime.
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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Starve-gutted Authors of Grub-street, employ their impotent Pens against Pudding and Pudding-headed,
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They stood on the house tops and preached, 'till of a verity they were black in the face with the heating quality of their arguments; they stationed themselves by the bye roads and hedges, to discuss the beauties of the country; they looked out from their garrett [_sic_] windows in Grub-street, and exclaimed,
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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