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  • If none of these lodgings please, you need not doubt very handsome ones in or near Hanover-square, Soho-square,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • His lodgings were for some time in Woodstock-street, near Hanover-square, and afterwards in Castle-street, near

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • The lady was set down in a street not far from Hanover-square, where the door being presently opened, she was carried in, and the gentleman, without any ceremony, walked in after her.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • I met a mob, just after my father was put out, in Hanover-square, and drove up to it to know what was the matter.

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • Augusta Byron was married at St. George's, Hanover-square, to her cousin, Lieut. - Colonel George Leigh, of the 10th, or Prince of Wales's

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • Hanover-square, and the very first sight that greeted them on their arrival was the infant from the City (John's), accompanied by his brother, the infant from Pump-court (James '), who had, presumably come to show him the way, or more probably because he thought that there would be eatables going -- holding in his hand a legal-looking letter.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Hanover-square is, she thought, evidently capable of anything.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Indeed, so fierce was the crowd in its attempt to get a glimpse of the latest curiosity, that she began to think that she would be thrown down and trampled under foot, when timely relief arrived in the shape of two policemen and a gentleman volunteer, who managed to rescue her and get them into a hansom cab, which started for Hanover-square, pursued by a shouting crowd of nondescript individuals.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • And now, it may strike the reader as very strange, but, as a matter of fact, ten days from the date of the above conversation, there was a small-and-early gathering at St. George's, Hanover-square, close by.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Hanover-square, to tell his dear Augusta that she must attend on the following morning to be filed in the Registry at Somerset House.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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