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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... 1982. A Tail Wagging the Dog: the Patron-client Model in Thai Studies. C. Clapham (ed.), Private Patronage and Public Power. Frances Printer, London...

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Love and Mr. Lewisham

By: H. G. Wells

... him. She lived quite near, she said, at least within walking distance, in Clapham. He instantly forgot the vague design of lending her his “Sartor Re... ... her his “Sartor Resartus” in his curiosity to learn more about her home. “Clapham—that’s almost in London, isn’t it?” he said. “Quite,” she said, but... ...r to meet her again. She might leave Whortley anywhen for the amenities of Clapham. He stopped and stood irresolute. Should he run after her? Then he ... ...came a vision of the long duty of the after- noon—she possibly packing for Clapham all the while. He turned white. Mr. Bonover watched his face. “No,”... ... “I’m going home to London on Monday.” “I knew,” he cried in triumph. “T o Clapham?” he asked. “Yes. I have got a situation. You did not know that I w... ... her. He had vague dreams 40 Love and Mr. Lewisham of going to London, to Clapham to find her. But you do not find people in Clapham as you do in Who... ...nt many an afternoon during his first few months in London wandering about Clapham, that arid waste of people, the meeting that he longed for never ca... ...fternoons that he had spent after his arrival in London, wandering through Clapham with a fad- ing hope of meeting her, had not returned to him. But h... ...e you far to go? I would like to talk to you. There is a lot …” “I walk to Clapham,” she said. “If you care … to come part of the way …” She moved awk...

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Some Christmas Stories

By: Charles Dickens

...rsuits and hab- its is to the following effect. I live in a lodging in the Clapham Road—a very clean back room, in a very respectable house—where I am... ... makes its way round to the morning hour again, I make my way round to the Clapham Road again, and go to bed when I get to my lodging—fire being expen... ...the feel- ing of the moment if we were wholly separated. When I die in the Clapham Road, I shall not leave much more in this world than I shall take o... ...his is not my life, and these are not my habits. I do not even live in the Clapham Road. Comparatively speaking, I am very seldom there. I reside, mos...

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The Parsons Daughter of Oxney Colne

By: Anthony Trollope

...nt. Now Captain John Broughton was the second son of Alfonso Broughton, of Clapham Park and Eaton Square, Member of Parliament, and Lord of the afores...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...that they had made the acquain- tance of two young ladies in employment in Clapham, Miss Flossie Bright and Miss Edna Bunthorne, and it was resolved t... ...ulty he hired a basket-work trailer from the big business of Wray’s in the Clapham Road. T o see our young men, brightly dressed and cigarettes alight... ...nd it’s all mixed up with the burnt stuff, and that’s too ‘ot to touch. IS Clapham out of your way?” “All in the day’s work,” said the gentleman with ... ...ner as it is, so it won’t make much difference for us to go home by way of Clapham. We’ve got to get to Surbiton, anyhow. I’m afraid you”ll find us a ... ...k?” “It wass a bombardment.” “They don’t say anything about a place called Clapham, or 154 The War in the Air Bun Hill, do they?” “I haf heard noding... ...r you and arstin’ us to take ‘er in. That was after the battle and settin’ Clapham Rise afire. I was for takin’ ‘er in, but Jessica wouldn’t ‘ave it—a... ... of pigs and hens and small needs and little economies and children, until Clapham and Bun Hill and all the life of the Scientific Age became to Bert ...

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The Bedfordrow Conspiracy

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...d it be?—Not Blatherwick, for he passed the Sabbath with his grandmamma at Clapham; not Scully surely, for he always went to Bethesda Chapel, and to a...

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

... said. “This is my coun- try. All this hill down to the river, and back to Clapham, and up to the edge of the common. There is only food for one. Whic... ...ils, and on either side of the railway the houses were blackened ruins. To Clapham Junction the face of London was grimy with 150 The War of the Worl... ... the Black Smoke, in spite of two days of thunder- storms and rain, and at Clapham Junction the line had been wrecked again; there were hundreds of ou...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

... five pounds a year, and was taken at that into a driving establishment in Clapham, which dealt chiefly in ready-made suits, fed its assistants in an ... ...V Vacation acation acation acation acation I I I I I MR. POLLY returned to Clapham from the funeral celebra- tion prepared for trouble, and took his d... ... would happen in En- gland—to him. When, a month later, he came out of the Clapham side door at last into the bright sunshine of a fine London day, 5...

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Three Ghost Stories

By: Charles Dickens

...ight be delivered over to her sister (2 T uppintock’s Gardens, Liggs’s Walk, Clapham Rise), in the event of anything happening to her from the damp. S...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

... IX MRS. JOSEPH PORTER MOST EXTENSIVE WERE the preparations at Rose Villa, Clapham Rise, in the occupation of Mr. Gattleton (a stock- broker in especi... ...st horror, one Mrs. Joseph Porter over the way. However, the good folks of Clapham and its vicinity stood very much in awe of scandal and sarcasm; and... .... Seven o’clock came, and so did the audience; all the rank and fashion of Clapham and its vicinity was fast filling the theatre. There were the Smith...

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Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

...m, set off from B. intending to trace their route. He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no farther; for on entering that place they removed into a... ...ject must be, to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham. It had come with a fare from London; and as he thought the cir... ...om one carriage into another, might be remarked, he meant to make enquiries at Clapham. If he could any how discover at what house the coachman had be... ...uaded him to come to Gracechurch street. That Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham, before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfac tory inf...

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Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

...t off from B., intending to trace their route. He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a ha... ...t must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham. It had come with a fare from London; and as he thought that the ci... ...ne carriage into an- other might be remarked he meant to make inquiries at Clapham. If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before ... ...d him to come to Gracechurch Street; that Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham, before his arrival, but with- out gaining any satisfactory informa...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...l! Hea. In P’inchesta! I’ve made up my mind to sit unda you—as they say in Clapham. I’ve come ‘ight down he’ fo’ good. I’ve taken a little house—oh! a...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...tat- ing her intention to return the next morning to her native village of Clapham. “She may have Payne’s room,” Emmy said. “Why, you don’t mean to sa...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... tends, for instance, to be continually busied about dress. She can be taught with extreme diffi- culty to think any costume decent but that to which ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...lda to Miss Peckover’s, 124 V anity Fair – V olume Two Laurentinum House, Clapham. Raggles loved and adored the Crawley family as the author of all h...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...ckwick. ‘They have heard all about me.’ ‘You are the gentleman residing on Clapham Green,’ resumed Bantam, ‘who lost the use of his limbs from imprude...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ugar-cane Lodge, and little Matilda to Miss Peckover’s, Laurentinum House, Clapham. Raggles loved and adored the Crawley family as the author of all h... ...tat- ing her intention to return the next morning to her native village of Clapham. “She may have Payne’s room,” Emmy said. “Why, you don’t mean to sa...

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The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

...mild, so that, mounting to the top of trams, they could rumble together to Clapham or to Greenwich. If at the same time their minutes had never been s...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... I was passing through I didn’t mean that one would treat Rome as if it were Clapham Junction. To pass through Rome is to stop a week or two.” “Say fr...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... was passing through I didn’t mean that one would treat Rome as if it were Clapham Junc- tion. To pass through Rome is to stop a week or two.” “Say fr...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rian), and generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered....

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Dark Lady of the Sonnets

By: George Bernard Shaw

...hat Shakespear was not only very unlike the conception of a god current in Clapham, but was not, according to the same reckoning, even a re- spectable...

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John Bull on the Guadalquivir

By: Anthony Trollope

...n, and I straightway appreciated the necessity of returning immediately to Clapham where my family resided, and giving up for ever all idea of Spanish...

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

...y left Sydenham, they got into a Water- loo train, and so had to change at Clapham Junction. It was a fine summer evening, and Alice, though she thoug... ...hich terminated in a bank covered with flowers. “To my mind,” said Lydia, “Clapham Junction is one of 73 George Bernard Shaw the prettiest places abo... ...e a—a—Where—when did you see me? You might tell me.” “Certainly. It was at Clapham Junction, at a quarter-past six.” “Was any one with me?” “Your frie... ... Wiltstoken; and Mellish was my trainer. It came off the day you saw me at Clapham; that was how I came to have a black eye. Wiltstoken did for me. Wi...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ists. The respectable Englishman who is a Christian because he was born in Clapham would be a Mohammedan for the cognate reason if he had been born in...

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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

... the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu, And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban. Here’s my wisdom for your use, as I learned it ...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...without any question of conduct. That is what marriage means in Sweden. In Clapham that is what they call by the senseless name of Free Love. In the B...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... I resolved to return; the more willingly, as a New England officer, Colonel Clapham, experienced in Indian war, being on a visit to our establishment...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

... IX MRS. JOSEPH PORTER MOST EXTENSIVE WERE the preparations at Rose Villa, Clapham Rise, in the occupation of Mr. Gattleton (a stock- broker in especi... ...st horror, one Mrs. Joseph Porter over the way. However, the good folks of Clapham and its vicinity stood very much in awe of scandal and sarcasm; and... .... Seven o’clock came, and so did the audience; all the rank and fashion of Clapham and its vicinity was fast filling the theatre. There were the Smith...

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