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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ullswater, Windermere, Grasmere, Hawswater, Elter-water, Broad-water, and Rydal-water. Ullswater, on the north-western … is three miles long, and from a quarter to half a mile broad. About the centre it is nearly divided into two parts … still be clearly traced, being uniformly about seven yards broad, and composed of large loose stones. Other vestiges of …
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… robe, were changed in shape, and the dark spots on his broad ermine cape were distorted from their primitively …
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… absorbed in Prince's Street, between Storey's Gate and the Broad Sanctuary. A short account of the privilege of …
Old and New London
… of the school. In 1870, the Crimean Memorial in the Broad Sanctuary having become somewhat dilapidated, a sum of … to their prowess in the stern art of war the column in the Broad Sanctuary, facing the entrance to Dean's Yard, amply … Yard is under a Gothic archway, which opens into the Broad Sanctuary. This archway is in the centre of a lofty …
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… he adds, "is a mixture of brick and stone, with a broad flight of steps leading up to the door, which is … of the throne likewise is of crimson velvet, trimmed with broad gold lace, and embroidered with crowns set with fine … carved, overlaid with burnished gold, and covered with broad-striped yellow satin. Several highly-polished syenite …
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… Westminster King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER.KING STREET, GREAT GEORGE STREET, AND THE BROAD SANCTUARY. "Urbs antiqua fuit." Virg., "n.," i. Ancient … THE BUXTON DRINKING FOUNTAIN. Great George Street, the broad thoroughfare leading in a direct line from Bridge …
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… has now disappeared, and in its place has been formed the broad and open thoroughfare, Victoria Street, which was … upwards of a thousand yards in length, extending from the Broad Sanctuary to Shaftesbury Place, Pimlico; it is eighty …
Old and New London
… those chiefly concerned show their wit. The worldwith its broad daylight, its tumultuous noise, and its distracted … tree in the centre; and in the lower part of the parade broad running water, with a bridge of two arches in the … takes somewhat the shape of a boy's kite, the head or broad part of which, towards Whitehall, is bordered by some …
Old and New London
… Tothill Street, which extends to the Broadway from the Broad Sanctuary, near the west front of the Abbey, is the …