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the longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea- 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.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is poisoning London.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Was it really possible that the Germans could own the Thames?Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames.Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- Below me is the Thames, dappled with street light.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- 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.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- His horns were thick and tipped with brass; his two nostrils like the Thames Tunnel as seen in the perspective toys of yore.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Thames, its foul, mud-colored main artery and portal to the world, carried more traffic than any river in Europe.David McCullough -- John Adams
- I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- There were new bridges over the Thames, but in the old places.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- Parliament, the Thames, the irresponsive chauffeur, would flash into the field of house-hunting, and all demand some comment or response.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- 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."Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- Mark Twain gives us the Mississippi, Hart Crane the Hudson-East-Mississippi/generic-American, and T. S. Eliot the Thames.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- 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.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- At the mouth of the Thames River.Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
- Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- 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.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- And this was not Yale versus Harvard on the Thames River in Connecticut, all pulling together.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
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