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The Thames
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    If you must battle them, find a bridge over the Thames.†  (source)
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    He tells us sit at the table in his kitchen and we can read his comic books if we like, Film Fun, the Beano, the Dandy, or the religious magazines or his mother's romance magazines, the Miracle and the Oracle, which always have stories about factory girls who are poor but beautiful in love with sons of earls and vice versa and the factory girl ends up throwing herself into the Thames with the hopelessness only to be rescued by a passing carpenter who is poor but honest and will love the factory girl for her own humble self though it turns out the passing carpenter is really the son of a duke, which is much higher than an earl, so that now the poor factory girl is a duchess and can look down†  (source)
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    Although the Squamscott was never the Thames, the big oceangoing ships once made their way to Gravesend on the Squamscott; the channel has since become so obstructed by rocks and shoals that no boat requiring any great draft of water could navigate it.†  (source)
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    'I know,' said Mother, 'there are locks on the Thames.†  (source)
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    And this was not Yale versus Harvard on the Thames River in Connecticut, all pulling together.†  (source)
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    With Higgins's physique and temperament Sweet might have set the Thames on fire.†  (source)
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    At the mouth of the Thames River.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    We sourced Portland and Roman cement to build artificial rocks, and purchased Thames river sand from a stone wharf to line the tanks' bottoms.†  (source)
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    Was it really possible that the Germans could own the Thames?†  (source)
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    Calling these things to mind, and ranging Mr Pancks in a row with them, Arthur Clennam 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 upon it, take it in tow, and bustle off with it;†  (source)
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