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Old and New London
… of the previous Chapter House, which stood on the same spot, cannot be determined. The present building stands over …
Old and New London
… had injured himself, and all eyes were riveted to the spot. In an instant a dozen arms and hands were extended to …
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… before him he will perceive a figure pointing to a spot on a globe, either intending to show where the deceased … poet in a meditative attitude; and the quiet and secluded spot in which it is placed, apart from the crowd, and in a … its transfer to America. A suitable inscription marks the spot where the body rested. "He was a man," to use the apt …
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… There is," he adds, "a slight difference about the exact spot where it was printed; but all agree that it was within …
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… School CHAPTER LV. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. "Dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot." Byron. … of Westminster have resolutely adhered to the ancient spot which has been the home of the school for eight … independent spirit. Within a quarter of a mile of the spot there existed a cock-pit, at which matches were fought …
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… their readers, ascribe the first sacred building on this spot to King Lucius, who reigned here in the second century, … which rose up slightly in the centre of this marshy spot, that the church was built, which ultimately developed … scale than was known to the last generation. Around this spot, so rich in sacred traditions, if not in actual …
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… amused themselves at the game of bowls. The memory of the spot is still preserved in the name of Bowling Alley. In …
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… the "keeper of the king's birds," whose house stood on the spot. This fact has been doubted; but that Storey's Gate was … we may infer, was the beginning of the barracks on this spot. Near this part, as Aubrey tells us, a Mr. James … prevented the attention of passers-by being attracted. The spot was out of the line which any one carrying dead game …
Old and New London
… to this district from a beacon placed here, as the highest spot in and around the flat region of Westminster. The … often, by the way, styled "Tuttle" and "Tut-hill," was the spot on which solemn proclamations were made to the people. … except in the doomed city, remaining himself on the spot, "with the same coolness with which he had fought the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of evidence for a fairly extensive Roman settlement at the spot known as "The Cindries," or "Cinder Hill," in the parish … mass of masonry," with "material like tufa." At one spot, however, about 150 yards S.E. from the …