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When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled, to suffer death, as the champion of the English laws, one of the multitude cried out to him, “You never sate on so glorious a seat.”
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These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of
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On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg.
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After descending Tower-hill we came half a mile and encamped.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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Almost half the way to Tower-hill was wooded with myall and western-wood acacia.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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Tower-hill -- proceeded with a large body of the civic authorities to arrest him, but after an arduous chase of half-an-hour we unfortunately lost him in Houndsditch.
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various
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From the range in the first part of the way Tower-hill bore south-east and by south, and a little range south-south-east (the latter is about one and a half miles west-south-west from Tower-hill).
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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London, was brought before the archbishop, and being declared an obstinate heretic, was burnt alive on Tower-hill, for no other reason than that he embraced and professed the doctrines of Wickliffe.
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About four and a half miles to the north-north-west we observed two table-topped hills, and in the distance to the south-south-east a hill which may be the Simon Pure Tower-hill.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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When we had come about sixteen miles we reached Tower-hill.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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