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F.S.A. But a few months ago we had been strolling about Palace-yard, and instinctively paused at No. 19 York-street, Westminster.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Some months elapsed, when one evening, Fox, after going through a stormy meeting, in Palace-yard, went up to the Speaker in the chair, and said -- "I have not forgotten your cuttings, but have brought them up to town with me," giving him directions at the same time for their treatment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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As the procession entered the Palace-yard, the soldiers rested their muskets and the drums beat, as to the Royal Family.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Whitehall-place, and Palace-yard, into broken stone roads, has been £ 6,055 8_s_. 3_d_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 Various
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By this time Mr. Addington, an active Middlesex magistrate, arrived in Palace-yard, with a party of horse and foot guards, and induced the multitude to disperse.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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The sea of heads in Palace-yard, the guards, horse and foot, the scaffolds, balconies, and procession exceeded imagination.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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I made my way into the Birdcage walk, and so through Palace-yard down to the stairs at the foot of where they were driving the first piles of that great structure which is now called
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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In the course of April, George Marsh, a curate, was burnt at Chester; and on the 20th of April, a man named William Flower, who had been once a monk of Ely, was burnt in Palace-yard, at Westminster.
The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856
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Guards were seen trotting down Parliament Street, everybody ran away, and in a few minutes all Palace-yard was as still as if the genius of the place rendered a riot impossible.
Venetia Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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He owed society nothing; his reception at the House of Lords and the riot in Palace-yard had alike cleared his accounts with all orders of men, from the highest to the lowest.
Venetia Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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