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Later in the evening, not far from nine o'clock several young men passed by the Town-house and walked down King Street.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Town-house, for months; and whoever was observed to pass it with looks of disapprobation, was marked as an object of suspicion.
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The shrill fife and rattling drum awoke the echoes in King Street while the last ray of sunshine was lingering on the cupola of the Town-house.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Stray discoveries are now and then made in the charter-rooms of royal burghs, as sometime ago there was found in the Town-house of Aberdeen a charter and several confirmations by King Robert Bruce.
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Town-house, for months; and whoever was observed to pass it with looks of disapprobation, was marked as an object of suspicion.
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It flamed high upward, and threw a ruddy light over the front of the Town-house, on which was displayed a carved representation of the royal arms.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Town-house, and the various consulates and banks; and round this European nucleus cluster the native village and the Arab and Chinese
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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At the end of the bridge is a spacious market-place, flanked on one side by the Town-house.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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_ -- Obliged to stay at home, because I think we are going to change our Town-house.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 Various 1876
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In Burgstead was no Mote-hall or Town-house or Church, such as we wot of in these days; and their market-place was wheresoever any might choose to pitch a booth: but for the most part this was done in the wide street betwixt the gate and the bridge.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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