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...ing! They hang about the purlieus of the me- tropolis: Brook Green, Epsom, Greenwich, Ascot, Goodwood, are their haunts. They visit London professiona... ...orge Cruikshank score we may speak as well as another. Then there are the “Greenwich Hospital” designs, which must not be passed over. “Greenwich Hosp...

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...ted rooms. There are dozens of steamers to all sorts of places Gravesend, Greenwich, and Richmond; and such numbers of people, that when you have ... ...lds and beautiful orchards of Kent; or to stroll among the fine old trees of Greenwich Park, and survey the wonders of Shooter’s Hill and Lady James’s...

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...gusts of wind. It was in latitude 40 south, and nearly in the longitude of Greenwich, as far as I can remember, that these quiet rites of Almayer’s an...

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...de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a bonnet (it had originally...

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...was three in the morning. This fa- mous timepiece, always regulated on the Greenwich merid- ian, which was now some seventy-seven degrees westward, wa...

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...ox and money; and, panting and crying, but never stopping, faced about for Greenwich, which I had under- stood was on the Dover Road: taking very litt... ...gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey-cart, and started for Greenwich. My scattered senses were soon collected as to that point, if I h...

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...of Hampton Court past the whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals o...

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...with the fireworks at close quarters. We went in a river steamboat down to Greenwich, and fired by that made an excursion to Margate and back; we expl...

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...to sit in the sun, and spin his yarns on, and tell him to think himself at Greenwich.’ Albinia went down, only afraid that his being so very good was ...

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...sh you to read and explain it to her.” “Certainly, madam.” “She lives near Greenwich Park,” continued Lady Belamour, “and as I would not have the secr... ...harves and building yards of Deptford, and be- yond them rose the trees of Greenwich Park, while the river below exhibited a forest of masts. The boat... ...it for the tide to shoot the bridge.” “Then pray let us go out and walk in Greenwich Park,” exclaimed Aurelia, longing to escape from this den. “The s... ..., he had best keep watch on the river gate of Mis- tress Darke’s garden at Greenwich. No time to lose.” “Who brought you this?” demanded Betty, as wel... ...” said she, leaning across to Sir Amyas, who had engaged the boat to go to Greenwich. He started as if it were a new and sudden thought, and turning t... ...red. Mr. W ayland said a few words of explanation that his wife’s agent at Greenwich had brought them back to her. “Pray let me have them,” entreated ...

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...adies to have besought them to make all possible display when they come. In these circumstances much excitement was one day occasioned by Mrs. Mitts r... ...ighbour did afterwards sol- emnly affirm that when he was admitted into Mrs. Mitts’s room, she heard a smack. Heard a smack which was not a blow. Ther... ...t not again did he depart alone; for Mrs. Mitts, in a bonnet identified as hav- ing been re-embellished, went out walking with him, and stayed out til... ...ll the ladies, matters not. Before another week was out, Titbull’s was startled by another phenomenon. At ten o’clock in the forenoon appeared a cab, ... ...ared a cab, containing not only the Greenwich Pensioner with one arm, but, to boot, a Chelsea Pensioner with one leg. Both dismounting to assist Mrs. ... ...t have done in the matter of tak- ing it up, goaded by the infuriated state of public feeling next morning, was anticipated by another phenomenon. A T... ...opelled by the Greenwich Pensioner and the Chelsea Pensioner, each placidly smoking a pipe, and pushing his warrior breast against the handle. The dis... ...e pump or the iron railings, and to be talking to one of the junior ladies, and to see that a flush has passed over her face, I immediately know witho...

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...d. It had known the ships and the men. They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith—the adventurers and the set- tlers; kings’ ships and ...

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..., who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothecary to Greenwich Hospital, in his “Essay on the Effects of Opium” (published in th...

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...g in comparison, the most im- portant seems to have been a Dr. Burney’s at Greenwich; a large day-schoo] and boarding-school, where Anthony and John g... ...rs, in the strangest, most peaceful way. I felt myself walking with you in Greenwich Park, and on the seashore at Sandgate; almost even I seemed a bab...

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...e is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich for the old honest pimple-nosed coachmen? I won- der where are th... ...him. He’d go to the deuce to be seen with a lord. He pays their dinners at Greenwich, and they invite the company.” “And very pretty company too, I da...

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... beat of the two ship’s chronometers tick- ing off steadily the seconds of Greenwich Time seemed to me a protection and a relief. Karain stared stonil...

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...lined to persecute the ob- durate fearful. That night, at seven-fifteen by Greenwich time, the star would be at its nearest to Jupiter. Then the world...

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... de chambre who began to be dreadfully ill by the time the boat had passed Greenwich; a groom or two who lounged in the neighbourhood of the horse-box...

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... 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 so counted it s...

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...en Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; “when Sir Martin...