All 3 Uses of
The Thames
in
Oliver Twist
- Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames.†
Chpt 46 *
- CHAPTER L THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe abuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London, wholly unknown, even by name, to the great mass of its inhabitants.†
Chpt 50
- It is a creek or inlet from the Thames, and can always be filled at high water by opening the sluices at the Lead Mills from which it took its old name.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(The Thames) the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea