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Survey of London
… Stairs. 159 Keeping birds seems to have been much the fashion in Charles II's Court. There was a large volary on … same. But all Persons of Gentlemen of Quality and of good Fashion, and the Gentlemen that attend Our Great Officers and … and there to Attend and Stay. And also all Persons of good fashion and Credit may attend in that Roome upon Councill …
Old and New London
… light and dark alternately, and disposed in a tesselated fashion; but of this we shall have more to say in a future … King Charles II. was brought back hither "in military fashion" through London, by way of the Strand, "all the … 1685. Some grave persons, who had gone thither, after the fashion of that age, to pay their duty to their sovereign, …
Old and New London
… near him; and his beard, instead of being cut in a certain fashion, grew all over his face. After his death the body lay …
Old and New London
… square and formal in plan, and adorned, after the fashion of the times, with statues of marble and bronze, many …
Old and New London
… covered his head with a buttoned cap of the country fashion," as Walpole tells us in his "Miscellaneous …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… to war again. The funds are rising again. Murders seem the fashion at the present time. A man on Saturday night killed … to light many disgraceful things. Murder certainly is the fashion. A young woman the other day (a servant) killed (as …