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  • When Buttercup was fifteen, Adela Terrell, of Sussex on the Thames, was easily the most beautiful creature.†   (source)
  • Below me is the Thames, dappled with street light.†   (source)
  • God bless the Thames!†   (source)
  • He drove past the Armenian church, then around the obelisk at Arat Kilo—another war monument at a roundabout—past the Gothic spires and domes of the Trinity Cathedral and then the Parliament Building, which took its inspiration from the one on the banks of the Thames.†   (source)
  • Boudicca is honoured with a statue on the Thames at Westminster Bridge, opposite Big Ben.†   (source)
  • The Thames, its foul, mud-colored main artery and portal to the world, carried more traffic than any river in Europe.†   (source)
  • There were new bridges over the Thames, but in the old places.†   (source)
  • I knocked and entered as the last record ceased playing, and the great barge with its jubilant trumpets vanished around a turning on the Thames.†   (source)
  • At the mouth of the Thames River.†   (source)
  • It is every river and no river—the shadow of the Mississippi, the Nile, the Thames.†   (source)
  • The city was leveled: rubble and dust for miles, the Thames choked with flotsam.†   (source)
  • Through the glass doors, you could see the lights shining on the Thames.†   (source)
  • Your parents had docked this boat on the Thames.†   (source)
  • I found myself back in London, on the banks of the Thames.†   (source)
  • If you must battle them, find a bridge over the Thames.†   (source)
  • As she sings, she dips a shallow pan into the Thames and brings it up.†   (source)
  • Their direction was west along the Thames where the English countryside was in its April glory.†   (source)
  • Finally, Bes turned onto Westminster Bridge and doubled back over the Thames.†   (source)
  • "She paid me a lil visit down by the Thames the other nigh'.†   (source)
  • Out on the Thames, the boats sway with the current.†   (source)
  • I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames.†   (source)
  • The pools of the Thames are crowded with them.†   (source)
  • There's a small gap between them, but in the dark with the Thames lapping below, it seems a mile.†   (source)
  • The streetlamps cast pools of light onto the Thames; they run like wet paint.†   (source)
  • There's nowhere to go but into the Thames.†   (source)
  • A walkway is suspended between them high over the Thames.†   (source)
  • I scour the banks of the Thames, looking for anyone who might hear my screams and offer aid.†   (source)
  • Power rushes through me like the Thames itself.†   (source)
  • Because I saw her pulled from the Thames, drowned.†   (source)
  • I hear the heavy plink as it's tossed back into the Thames riverbed, that graveyard of hope.†   (source)
  • I try to protest but find I cannot, and we follow the Thames without another word.†   (source)
  • So thought Nurse Tallis as she lingered near the dispensary, waiting for the pharmacist to return, and gazing across the Thames, oblivious to the danger she was in, of being discovered standing on one leg by Sister Drummond.†   (source)
  • It's about seventy feet tall, which would've been really impressive back in Ancient Egypt, but on the Thames, with all the tall buildings around, it looks small and sad.†   (source)
  • Amos's boat, the same one that had carried us from the Thames to Brooklyn, was beached at the top of a nearby dune, canted at a precarious angle as if it had been thrown there.†   (source)
  • I was back at the Thames.†   (source)
  • —— 1893 LONDON THE NIGHT WAS COLD AND DISMAL, AND OUT ON THE Thames, the rivermen cursed their luck.†   (source)
  • He shook his face and waggled his slimy green tongue and roared B0000! so loudly, the sound rolled across the Thames like a cannon shot.†   (source)
  • There was even sunshine, and the small, elegant Adelphi Hotel, on a narrow street just off the Strand, near the Thames, was "as quiet as at any place in Boston."†   (source)
  • I reached out with my senses until I was aware of everything around me—Emma scrawling with chalk to finish the circle, Liz's heart beating too fast, Babi's massive feet pounding on the bridge as he ran toward us, the Thames flowing under the bridge, and the currents of the Duat flowing around me just as powerfully.†   (source)
  • Both—Alexander Pope's garden beside the Thames at Twickenham and Woburn Farm—were prime examples of the "modern," or "new-style" English landscape gardening that was so radically different from the highly symmetrical gardens made fashionable by the French, and particularly by the work of Andre LaNotre at Versailles in the time of Louis XIV.†   (source)
  • They sift through the Thames for whatever they can find of value to sell or keep—rags, bones, a bit of tin or coal from a passing ship.†   (source)
  • You could pitch me in the Thames.†   (source)
  • But to wade into the Thames…†   (source)
  • Still, it was sad when the deceased's last words were lost with her, but, he reasoned, if this lady had anyone to care about her at all, she wouldn't be floating facedown in the Thames on a rough night.†   (source)
  • And on the banks of the Thames, the mud larks sift through the filth and the muck, searching for what treasures may hide there—a coin, a fine watch, a lost comb, some bit of glittering luck to change their fate.†   (source)
  • We're close to the Thames.†   (source)
  • We girls had rather hoped for a gown befitting a queen—all lace and bows and a train as long as the Thames—but Mademoiselle LeFarge insisted that a woman of her age and means shouldn't put on airs.†   (source)
  • But a pocketful of coins would put food and ale in their bellies tonight, and for rivermen like Archie and Rupert, the here and now was what counted; hoping to see beyond tomorrow was a cockeyed optimism best left to people who didn't spend their lives scouring the Thames for the dead.†   (source)
  • Behind us is the Thames.†   (source)
  • The rivermen navigated the shallows of the Thames, poking their long hooks into the filthy water, looking for the bodies of anyone who'd met with misfortune on this night—sailors or dockworkers too drunk to save themselves from drowning; the sorry victims of knife fights, or of cutpurses and murderers; the mud larks carried away by a sudden strong tide, their aprons heavy with prized coal, that same coal that pulled them under to their deaths.†   (source)
  • His thoughts were still in turmoil as he crossed to the embankment wall and let his eye follow the Thames on its unhurried way to the sea.†   (source)
  • A slow smile spread over Jan's face as he turned away from the Thames, back towards the gleaming white facade of the Science Centre.†   (source)
  • Some humorous civil servant had put the Royal Astrociomical Society on the top floor of the great building, a gesture which the Council members fully appreciated as it gave them a magnificent view across the Thames and over the entire northern part of the city.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes later we were in a fast police car crossing the Thames on our way out of London.†   (source)
  • A measure of the great man's anxiety about the Queen on this occasion is that he is said to have swum his horse across the Thames at the beginning of the ride, from Westminster Bridge to Lambeth, in spite of the fact that, if anything had gone wrong, his armour would certainly have drowned him.†   (source)
  • On the following day, there was still no trace of the missing man, but towards evening of the day after that again, a body was found in the Thames which proved to be that of the ill-fated Chinaman.†   (source)
  • And it was still going on, Mrs. Ramsay mused, gliding like a ghost among the chairs and tables of that drawing-room on the banks of the Thames where she had been so very, very cold twenty years ago; but now she went among them like a ghost; and it fascinated her, as if, while she had changed, that particular day, now become very still and beautiful, had remained there, all these years.†   (source)
  • That picture will fall on old Jolyon's head; he will die of the shock; the old clerk will speak over him two or three obituary words; and all the swans on the Thames will simultaneously burst out singing.†   (source)
  • NOW THERE'S A DARK Westminster of a time when a multitude of objects cannot be clear; they're too dense and there's an island rain, North Sea lightlessness, the vein of the Thames.†   (source)
  • What I sometimes didn't think of myself, in the fine pants and the buckskins, boots, sheath knife, while I drove the station wagon as if from the court at Greenwich and along the Thames, just back from a Spanish raid, goofy flowers in my hat.†   (source)
  • With Higgins's physique and temperament Sweet might have set the Thames on fire.†   (source)
  • I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames.†   (source)
  • The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.†   (source)
  • Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel.†   (source)
  • "I remember one suicide,' she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames.†   (source)
  • 'I know,' said Mother, 'there are locks on the Thames.†   (source)
  • So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley.†   (source)
  • There was a wharf behind, opening on the Thames.†   (source)
  • It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is poisoning London.†   (source)
  • The Baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him.†   (source)
  • In fact, it is one of the most populous places on the Thames round about here.†   (source)
  • "Oho!" said he; "so you know the Thames, do you?"†   (source)
  • And so on we went up the Thames still—or whither?†   (source)
  • These are the neighbours, and that like they run in the Thames valley.†   (source)
  • The royal barge, attended by its gorgeous fleet, took its stately way down the Thames through the wilderness of illuminated boats.†   (source)
  • And she had never seen any river at all except the Thames, which also would be all the better if its face was washed.†   (source)
  • At Barnes the river is muddy, dingy, and tidal; it has neither the graceful charm of the Thames above the locks nor the romance of the crowded stream below London Bridge.†   (source)
  • Parliament, the Thames, the irresponsive chauffeur, would flash into the field of house-hunting, and all demand some comment or response.†   (source)
  • The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted perhaps a mile from its present position.†   (source)
  • He is an experienced hand at the work, as he has had for years a launch of his own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads.†   (source)
  • Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.†   (source)
  • Van Helsing roughly put the facts before us first, "The Czarina Catherine left the Thames yesterday morning.†   (source)
  • And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, "followed the sea" with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames.†   (source)
  • The Thames might run inland from the sea, the chauffeur might conceal all passion and philosophy beneath his unhealthy skin.†   (source)
  • Fearful massacres in the Thames Valley!†   (source)
  • He went on playing in the mud just the same, and enjoying it, too; but, instead of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it afforded.†   (source)
  • His recollections filled him with nausea, and as he walked across the Thames he drew himself aside in an instinctive withdrawal from his thought of her.†   (source)
  • He said to himself: "Now is the matter clear; this is the stranger that plucked Giles Witt out of the Thames, and saved his life, that windy, bitter, first day of the New Year—a brave good deed—pity he hath been doing baser ones and got himself in this sad case ….†   (source)
  • Even the crews of the torpedo-boats and destroyers that had brought their quick-firers up the Thames refused to stop, mutinied, and went down again.†   (source)
  • None of the brown scum that drifted down the Thames after the destruction of Shepperton was examined at the time, and now none is forthcoming.†   (source)
  • But the day, tender and pale, had broken now, and the mist was tenuous; it bathed everything in a soft radiance; and the Thames was gray, rosy, and green; gray like mother-of-pearl and green like the heart of a yellow rose.†   (source)
  • Presently Tom found himself once more the chief figure in a wonderful floating pageant on the Thames; for by ancient custom the 'recognition procession' through London must start from the Tower, and he was bound thither.†   (source)
  • 'I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible.†   (source)
  • There was a line of bonfires stretching as far as one could see, up and down the Thames; London Bridge was illuminated; Southwark Bridge likewise; the entire river was aglow with the flash and sheen of coloured lights; and constant explosions of fireworks filled the skies with an intricate commingling of shooting splendours and a thick rain of dazzling sparks that almost turned night into day; everywhere were crowds of revellers; all London seemed to be at large.†   (source)
  • Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames, and one, by a happy chance, had been destroyed.†   (source)
  • It was with the greatest difficulty they could get her down to the beach, where presently my brother succeeded in attracting the attention of some men on a paddle steamer from the Thames.†   (source)
  • For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.†   (source)
  • All the railway lines north of the Thames and the South-Eastern people at Cannon Street had been warned by midnight on Sunday, and trains were being filled.†   (source)
  • By midday a Martian had been seen at Barnes, and a cloud of slowly sinking black vapour drove along the Thames and across the flats of Lambeth, cutting off all escape over the bridges in its sluggish advance.†   (source)
  • As the water spread the weed followed them, until the ruined villas of the Thames valley were for a time lost in this red swamp, whose margin I explored, and much of the desolation the Martians had caused was concealed.†   (source)
  • By midnight the blazing trees along the slopes of Richmond Park and the glare of Kingston Hill threw their light upon a network of black smoke, blotting out the whole valley of the Thames and extending as far as the eye could reach.†   (source)
  • At Putney, as I afterwards saw, the bridge was almost lost in a tangle of this weed, and at Richmond, too, the Thames water poured in a broad and shallow stream across the meadows of Hampton and Twickenham.†   (source)
  • Not only along the road through Barnet, but also through Edgware and Waltham Abbey, and along the roads eastward to Southend and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout.†   (source)
  • Close inshore was a multitude of fishing smacks—English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electric boats; and beyond were ships of large burden, a multitude of filthy colliers, trim merchantmen, cattle ships, passenger boats, petroleum tanks, ocean tramps, an old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from Southampton and Hamburg; and along the blue coast across the Blackwater my brother could make out dimly a dense swarm of boats…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE EXODUS FROM LONDON So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning—the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lashing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Thames, and hurrying by every available channel northward and eastward.†   (source)
  • It was the only warship in sight, but far away to the right over the smooth surface of the sea—for that day there was a dead calm—lay a serpent of black smoke to mark the next ironclads of the Channel Fleet, which hovered in an extended line, steam up and ready for action, across the Thames estuary during the course of the Martian conquest, vigilant and yet powerless to prevent it.†   (source)
  • It stood upon a low hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London.†   (source)
  • Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames.†   (source)
  • I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames, I do; and if Miss Pinkerton were there, I wouldn't pick her out, that I wouldn't.†   (source)
  • The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story.†   (source)
  • My aunt was quite gracious on the subject of the Thames (it really did look very well with the sun upon it, though not like the sea before the cottage), but she could not relent towards the London smoke, which, she said, 'peppered everything'.†   (source)
  • We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America.†   (source)
  • His horns were thick and tipped with brass; his two nostrils like the Thames Tunnel as seen in the perspective toys of yore.†   (source)
  • It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower.†   (source)
  • However, there was still the Thames sparkling under the sun, and near high water, as last night I had seen it gleaming under the moon.†   (source)
  • He watched the deer in Windsor Forest and admired the Thames from Richmond Hill; he ate white-bait and brown-bread and butter at Greenwich, and strolled in the grassy shadow of the cathedral of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • …leaned this day to the opinion, without quite deciding on it, that the last of the Patriarchs was the drifting Booby aforesaid, with the one idea of keeping the bald part of his head highly polished: and that, much as an unwieldy ship in the Thames river may sometimes be seen heavily driving with the tide, broadside on, stern first, in its own way and in the way of everything else, though making a great show of navigation, when all of a sudden, a little coaly steam-tug will bear down…†   (source)
  • At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous.†   (source)
  • You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you."†   (source)
  • 'I will fill my pockets with change for a sovereign in halfpence and drown myself in the Thames; but I will not be angry with her, even then, for I will put a note in the twopenny-post as I go along, to tell her where the body is.†   (source)
  • They strolled about the park together and sat under the trees, and in the afternoon, when it was delightful to float along the Thames, Miss Stackpole occupied a place in the boat in which hitherto Ralph had had but a single companion.†   (source)
  • "I don't understand you," said I. "Choose your bridge, Mr. Pip," returned Wemmick, "and take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it.†   (source)
  • Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see—shall I order eyes to see outwards?†   (source)
  • He could hear the cheering from the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargoes preparatory to dropping down the Thames.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • I was pretty good at most exercises in which country boys are adepts, but as I was conscious of wanting elegance of style for the Thames,—not to say for other waters,—I at once engaged to place myself under the tuition of the winner of a prize-wherry who plied at our stairs, and to whom I was introduced by my new allies.†   (source)
  • Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; "when Sir Martin returned from that voyage," saith Black Letter, "on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor."†   (source)
  • I hadn't the heart to tell Dick yesterday that we were as good as gone from the Thames-side; but somehow to you I must needs tell it."†   (source)
  • I know these reaches well; indeed, I may say that I know every yard of the Thames from Hammersmith to Cricklade.†   (source)
  • I should be sorry for you to think that I am careless of a thing so beautiful and interesting as the Thames.†   (source)
  • As he formed the words, the train stopped at his station, five minutes' walk from his own house, which stood on the banks of the Thames, a little way above an ugly suspension bridge.†   (source)
  • I reddened, and said, in order to cover my mistake: "I wonder you have never been up so high as this, since you live on the Thames, and moreover row so well that it would be no great labour to you.†   (source)
  • And she stood looking thoughtfully at me still, till she had to sit down as we passed under the middle one of the row of little pointed arches of the oldest bridge across the Thames.†   (source)
  • "Truly," said I. "Besides, I have not read any books about the Thames: it was one of the minor stupidities of our time that no one thought fit to write a decent book about what may fairly be called our only English river."†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXIV: UP THE THAMES: THE SECOND DAY They were not slow to take my hint; and indeed, as to the mere time of day, it was best for us to be off, as it was past seven o'clock, and the day promised to be very hot.†   (source)
  • I had by no means shaken off the feeling of oppression, and wherever I might have been should scarce have been quite conscious of the place; so it was no wonder that I felt rather puzzled in despite of the familiar face of the Thames.†   (source)
  • I was going to say, "But is this the Thames?" but held my peace in my wonder, and turned my bewildered eyes eastward to look at the bridge again, and thence to the shores of the London river; and surely there was enough to astonish me.†   (source)
  • However, since I had said in our early intercourse with my Hammersmith friends that I had known Epping Forest, I thought a hasty generalisation might be better in avoiding complications than a downright lie; so I said— "I have been in this country before; and I have been on the Thames in those days."†   (source)
  • As we went higher up the river, there was less difference between the Thames of that day and Thames as I remembered it; for setting aside the hideous vulgarity of the cockney villas of the well-to-do, stockbrokers and other such, which in older time marred the beauty of the bough-hung banks, even this beginning of the country Thames was always beautiful; and as we slipped between the lovely summer greenery, I almost felt my youth come back to me, and as if I were on one of those water…†   (source)
  • Hammond went on: "When you get down to the Thames side you come on the Docks, which are works of the nineteenth century, and are still in use, although not so thronged as they once were, since we discourage centralisation all we can, and we have long ago dropped the pretension to be the market of the world.†   (source)
  • She caught my eye and her cheeks reddened under their tan, and she said simply: "I must tell you, my friend, that when my father leaves the Thames this summer he will take me away to a place near the Roman wall in Cumberland; so that this voyage of mine is farewell to the south; of course with my goodwill in a way; and yet I am sorry for it.†   (source)
  • They had scarcely grasped the fact of their enemies being there, when another column of soldiers, pouring out of the streets which led into the great southern road going down to the Parliament House (still existing, and called the Dung Market), and also from the embankment by the side of the Thames, marched up, pushing the crowd into a denser and denser mass, and formed along the south side of the Square.†   (source)
  • I ought to ask your pardon for not stopping at one of the houses here or higher up; but a friend, who is living in a very pleasant house in the Maple-Durham meads, particularly wanted me and Clara to come and see him on our way up the Thames; and I thought you wouldn't mind this bit of night travelling."†   (source)
  • On this bank or bent of the hill, then, we had our mid-day meal; somewhat early for dinner, if that mattered, but we had been stirring early: the slender stream of the Thames winding below us between the garden of a country I have been telling of; a furlong from us was a beautiful little islet begrown with graceful trees; on the slopes westward of us was a wood of varied growth overhanging the narrow meadow on the south side of the river; while to the north was a wide stretch of mead…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXV: THE THIRD DAY ON THE THAMES As we went down to the boat next morning, Walter could not quite keep off the subject of last night, though he was more hopeful than he had been then, and seemed to think that if the unlucky homicide could not be got to go over-sea, he might at any rate go and live somewhere in the neighbourhood pretty much by himself; at any rate, that was what he himself had proposed.†   (source)
  • …by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and…†   (source)
  • The sport of boating, so popular on the Thames, has also given colloquial English some familiar terms, almost unknown in the United States, /e. g./, /punt/ and /weir/.†   (source)
  • /The Thames river/ would seem quite as strange to an Englishman as /the river Chicago/ would seem to us.†   (source)
  • …distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar, I hear continual echoes from the Thames, I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds, I hear the Coptic…†   (source)
  • He showed to us at one side a solitary shade, and said, "He cleft, in the bosom of God, the heart that still is honored on the Thames.†   (source)
  • Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins.†   (source)
  • These wherries are large vessels, with good accommodation for carrying passengers from Harwich to London; and though they are called wherries, which is a word used in the Thames for a small boat rowed with one or two men, yet these are vessels able to carry twenty passengers, and ten or fifteen tons of goods, and fitted to bear the sea.†   (source)
  • We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.†   (source)
  • ] Have I lived to be carried in a basket, and to be thrown in the Thames like a barrow of butcher's offal?†   (source)
  • What the reason of it was, I know not, but at the end of this time I was put on board of a ship in the Thames, and with me a gang of thirteen as hardened vile creatures as ever Newgate produced in my time; and it would really well take up a history longer than mine to describe the degrees of impudence and audacious villainy that those thirteen were arrived to, and the manner of their behaviour in the voyage; of which I have a very diverting account by me, which the captain of the ship…†   (source)
  • And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that, hissing hot, think of that, Master Brook!†   (source)
  • Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-Mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.†   (source)
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