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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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