All 25 Uses
The Thames
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Sweet Far Thing
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- —— 1893 LONDON THE NIGHT WAS COLD AND DISMAL, AND OUT ON THE Thames, the rivermen cursed their luck.†
Chpt 1 *The Thames = the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Because I saw her pulled from the Thames, drowned.†
Chpt 1
- A walkway is suspended between them high over the Thames.†
Chpt 3
- The pools of the Thames are crowded with them.†
Chpt 3
- I try to protest but find I cannot, and we follow the Thames without another word.†
Chpt 3
- As she sings, she dips a shallow pan into the Thames and brings it up.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- But to wade into the Thames...†
Chpt 3
- Out on the Thames, the boats sway with the current.†
Chpt 3
- Behind us is the Thames.†
Chpt 3
- I scour the banks of the Thames, looking for anyone who might hear my screams and offer aid.†
Chpt 3
- We're close to the Thames.†
Chpt 3
- There's nowhere to go but into the Thames.†
Chpt 3
- There's a small gap between them, but in the dark with the Thames lapping below, it seems a mile.†
Chpt 3
- Power rushes through me like the Thames itself.†
Chpt 3
- I hear the heavy plink as it's tossed back into the Thames riverbed, that graveyard of hope.†
Chpt 3
- You could pitch me in the Thames.†
Chpt 3
- She paid me a lil visit down by the Thames the other nigh'.†
Chpt 3
- The streetlamps cast pools of light onto the Thames; they run like wet paint.†
Chpt 4
- I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(The Thames) the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)