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"Have you read of what's already called the Praed Street Murder in the papers?" continued Zillah.
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If you ask a salesman in a modern book shop if he has "Praed," you of course expect him to reply, "I have, sir (or madam), but it doesn't seem to do any good."
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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Just above Piskies Cove is Acton Castle, owned by the Praed family.
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Winthrop Mackworth Praed (from Poems of Life and Manners, in The Poems [1844], vol. II)
My Partner 2010
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Pons strode rapidly to a window overlooking Praed Street and watched the young man walk to his car.
PORNOGRAPHY 2010
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It was already dark when we ascended to our lodgings in Praed Street.
Let Us Meet In The Afternoon sara t. 2010
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"I've always had an affinity for this character Praed," said Mr. Hibbert, 55, sitting on a couch in the lounge of the American Airlines Theatre where "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is billeted.
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Correctly interpreting their glance in my direction, he introduced me, and almost instantly diverted their attention from me by observing that if they insisted upon walking, they might better have come up Southampton Road and crossed to our lodgings on Praed Street than to have come up Kingsway and along Oxford Street and Edgware Road, which were considerably more dusty than the more direct route.
Let Us Meet In The Afternoon sara t. 2010
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Better ask the man to set him down in one of the streets that run from Sussex Gardens to Praed Street and leave him to make his own way to the station.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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Rosa Praed (1851-1935): Stubble Before the Wind (1908) -- these are ghost stories.
Archiving Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (short stories) girliejones 2010
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