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...oking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address). Simpson's first husband was... ...1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat and invited them to his country retreat - she did no... ... trade in slaves. The first Confederate capital was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond, Virginia. The term of office of the Confederate presid... ...ngerprints were first used to identify criminals in Bengal, India in the 1890s. The London Metropolitan Police introduced them in 1901. The Illinois... ...er and moved to live in a converted temple in Belgravia, a fashionable district of London, where he entertained the members of the Le Cercle Gastro... ...nts and files from destruction. But, mostly, he directed the Unit's operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house - Goldeneye - in...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of l...

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... CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate so... ...I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist; and show me a fine ‘ead of air, and I’ll dress it f... ...ogether, you don’t spare your money. I myself, at the “Star and Garter” at Richmond, once paid—” “Eighteenpence?” “Heighteenpence, sir!—I paid five-an... ....” Pooh! what’s money to you?” Walker looked down: it was Tom Dale. Who in London did not know little Tom Dale? He had cheeks like an apple, and his h... ...in thousands. I saw you go into Eglantine’s. Fine business that; finest in London. Five-shilling cakes of soap, my dear boy. I can’t wash with such. T... ...y of calling the “Star and Garter”), “and I’ll ride by them all the way to Richmond. It’s rather a long ride, but with Snaffle’s soft saddle I can do ... ...uests the honour and pleasure of their company at the ‘Star and Garter’ at Richmond to an early 37 Thackeray dinner on Sunday next. “If agreeable, Mr... ...r, when the whole secret was laid bare to him—how the ladies were going to Richmond on Sunday in Mr. Snaffle’s clarence, and how Mr. Eglantine was to ... ...eror” pricked up his ears a little uneasily passing the Ebenezer chapel in Richmond, where 40 Men’s Wives the congregation were singing a hymn, but b...

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...s something reassuringly inaggressive about the figure that confronted Sir Richmond. Dr. Martineau’s height wanted at least three inches of Sir Richmo... ...m too high so that he seemed to have grown out of them quite recently. Sir Richmond had been dreading an encounter with some dominating and mesmeric p... ... can’t leave off working.” “Your name,” said the doctor, “is familiar. Sir Richmond Hardy? In the papers. What is it?” “Fuel.” “Of course! The Fuel Co... ...patient acutely—with his ears. “But you see how important it is,” said Sir Richmond, and left his sentence unfinished. “I’ll do what I can for you,” s... ...kground of life. So that we seem to float over abysses.” “We do,” said Sir Richmond. “And we have nothing but the old habits and ideas ac- quired in t... ...o days’ time at latest, and afterwards the detested coupe could go back to London. The day was still young, and after lunch and coffee upon a sunny la... ...y dis- tresses as very little incidents in that perspective. Away there in London the case is altogether different; after three hours or so of the Com... ... And that’s why we’re here right now instead of being shopping in Paris or London like de- cent American women.” The younger lady looked down on her c... ... and the rest to the doctor. “it is nearer the begin- nings of things than London or Paris.” “And nearer to us, “ said Sir Richmond. “I call that just...

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...hree Heads by Charles Dickens DEDICATION To The Right Reverend THE BISHOP OF LONDON MY LORD, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on... ...ive greater plea sure, than walking through some of the principal streets of London on a fine Sunday, in summer, and watching the cheerful faces of th... ...m toil, and innocent enjoyment. The sun that rises over the quiet streets of London on a bright Sunday morning, shines till his setting, on gay and ha... ... and nothing like a cloud in the whole sky; and even the air of the river at London Bridge is something to them, shut up as they have been, all the we... ...e are dozens of steamers to all sorts of places Gravesend, Greenwich, and Richmond; and such numbers of people, that when you have once sat down o... ...dy James’s Folly; or to glide past the beautiful mead ows of Twickenham and Richmond, and to gaze with a de light which only people like them can kn... ...ocure their breakfasts, are also open. This class comprises, in a place like London, an enormous num ber of people, whose limited means prevent their...

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...n’s Island, for Capt. T. Ten Eyck, Eigh- teenth U. S. Infantry, and now at Richmond. I would like to have it done. Can it be? A. LINCOLN. 110 The W... ...ck, of Pennsylvania, whence he can never be dis- lodged by the enemy until Richmond is taken. If I shall dis- cover that General Grant may be greatly... ...tated in the cap- 139 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ture of Richmond by rapidly pouring to him a large number of armed men at the brief... ...n at for Major Nathan Goff, made a pris- oner of war, and now in prison at Richmond, let it be done. A. LINCOLN. ADDRESS TO THE 164TH OHIO REGIMENT, A... ...e Penin- sula, in the operations on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, in the battle of Monocacy, and in the intrenchments of Washington... ...envoy extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary of the United States at London, and which is the only correspondence found in this department touch...

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...nk of smoke, when looking North-eastward from her summerhouse, the flag of London: and she was a person of the critical mind, well able to distinguish... ...n five months; he had spent just three weeks of that time away from her in London. No one could doubt of his having kept his pledge, although his wife... ...man for Diana. Letters came from the house of the Pettigrews in Kent; from London; from Halford Manor in Hertfordshire; from Lockton Grange in Lincoln... ...nce felt; and if only she had been an actress showing herself nightly on a London 44 Diana of the Crossways stage, she would before now have met the ... ...mparisons. The excellent Sir Lukin was passing a great deal of his time in London. His wife had not a word of blame for him; he was a respectful husba... ...el, I will be just to soci- ety thus far,’ said Diana. ‘I was in a boat at Richmond last week, and Leander was revelling along the mud-banks, and took... ...s a lady, a saint in comparison! You know the world, old fellow:—Brighton, Richmond, visits to a friend as deep in the bog. How Fryar- 367 George Mer...

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...sent to a German university, and at the age of twenty- one had appeared in London, in a stockbroker’s office, where he was soon known as an accomplish... ...and yet he did not look like a statue, for it was acknowledged through all London that he was a good horseman. He lived luxuri- ously too,—though whet... ... was over, and the east wind was still blowing, and a great portion of the London world was out of town taking its Easter holiday, when on an unpleasa... ...been heard to assert that, for real quiet comfort, there was not a club in London equal to it, but his hearers were not aware that in the past days he... ...as all party with her. The Duchess possessed a pretty little villa down at Richmond, on the river, called The Horns, and gave parties there when there... ...oons, and evenings, on the lawn,—till half London was always on its way to Richmond or back again. How she worked! And yet from day to day she swore t... ...ing her parties. It was quite the thing to go to the Duchess’s, whether at Richmond or in London. But people abused her and laughed at her. They said ... ...as never seen at all in his own house, except at certain heavy dinners. To Richmond he never went at all, and in his own house in town very rarely eve... ...came here and quarrelled with the other man in my house, or rather down at Richmond, and made a fool of himself, and then quarrelled with his wife and...

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... anity Fair Volume Two by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham ON QUITTING BRIGHTON, our friend George, as became a per... ...t which took him to see Mr. Kean in Shylock. Immediately on his arrival in London he had written off to his father’s solicitors, signifying his royal ... ...liveliness and credit on this her first appearance in the genteel world of London. George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squared, and... ... of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attorneys’ clerks know in London! Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely... ...who sells small coal and potatoes, most likely, in Islington-town, hard by London, though she’s always bragging of her father’s ships, and pointing th... ...ack oi), and she’ll go back to her mother, who keeps a ladies’ siminary at Richmond—bad luck to her for running away from it! Where did ye get your fi... ...g manner. “I had the good fortune to meet Lady Bareacres at the Duchess of Richmond’s ball, the night before the Battle of Waterloo. And I recollect y...

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...her great-uncle in India be come home, and want her to make him a visit in London? How delightful! If it had been anybody but Papa, she would have sai... ... I see I must explain a good deal to you. It is the business of a court in London, that is called the Court of Chancery, to provide that proper care i... ...stand it at once. “Oh yes! we will visit. You shall all come and see me in London, and see the Zoological Gardens and the British Mu- seum; and I will... ...nt, and thank her for her kind letter; and say that I will bring you up to London on the day she names, without troubling the gov- erness and the butl... ... DAYS passed very slowly with Kate, until the moment when she was to go to London and take her state upon her, as she thought. Till that should come t... ... had promised to paste its back and press it. “ And Mamma drove with me to Richmond, on purpose to get leaves to spatter,” added the other sister. The...

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...night’s clouds into cocks for a coming cartage. There were thrushes in the Richmond Road, and a lark on Putney Heath. The freshness of dew was in the ... ...ay’s wasted. I’ve lost all that country road, and now I’m on the fringe of London. And I might have loitered all the morning! Ugh! Thank Heaven, sir, ... ...n Mr. Hoopdriver reached the doorway, the man in drab was a score of yards Londonward. He had already gathered pace. He pedalled with ill-suppressed a... ... affect all the rest of her life. She continued slowly walking her machine Londonward. Presently she stopped. “Oh! Why doesn’t he 30 The Wheels of Ch... ...h her in that cultivated voice of his—of the weather, of the distance from London, and of the excellence of the Ripley road—wandered to the incomparab... ... I enlarge upon his going into the writing-room, and marking the road from London to Guildford with a fine, bright line of the reddest of red ink. In ... ... This figure passes through Basingstoke and Bagshot, Staines, Hampton, and Richmond. At last, in Putney High Street, glowing with the warmth of an Aug...

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...er a different title. The manuscript was revised around 1803 and sold to a London publisher, Crosbie & Co., who sold it back in 1816. The Signet Class... ...gnet Classic text is based on the first edition, published by John Murray, London, in 1818—the year following Miss Austen’s death. Spelling and punctu... ...he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London. The whole being explained, many obliging things were said by the Mi... ...e balls of Bath with those of Tunbridge, its fashions with the fashions of London; could rectify the opinions of her new friend in many articles of ta... ...reet of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day neve... ...ired village would be ecstasy. There are some charming little villas about Richmond.” “Richmond!” cried Catherine. “Y ou must settle near Fuller- ton....

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...’s letters?’ ‘I think not. My brother spoke of keeping them till I came to London. That might give a chance, or the Houghtons might know about her. I ... ... ar- range. An afternoon train, probably, as we shall go no far- ther than London. You say Lady Kirkaldy called on you. We might return her visit befo... ...y? Yes, I saw that. And it ought to be, my dear. You know where?’ ‘Yes; to London first, to be fitted out, and then to his own home. To Bridgefield Eg... ...cklethwayte. How they would admire and bless her. And oh! she was going to London to-morrow—London, which she so much wished to see—Westminster Abbey,... ... visi- tors were going to remain long in the neighbourhood. ‘We are due in London to-night,’ replied Mr. Egremont. ‘We shall spend a day or two there,... ...ont wanted to take out his ladies. There was to be a great garden-party at Richmond, given by one of his former set, who had lately whitewashed himsel...

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...ld, Arabella, Cornelia, and Adela Pole, daughters of a flourishing City-of-London merchant, had been told of a singular thing: that in the neighbourin... ...being heard at night, in the nine- teenth century, within sixteen miles of London City. They agreed that Mr. Pericles had hired some charming cantatri... ...all be instructed as was not before. Zen a noise at La Scala. No—Paris! No—London! She shall astonish London fairst.—Y ez! if I take a theatre! Yez! i... ...ld were designing to establish just now, was of this receipt:—Celebrities, London residents, and County notables, all in their severally due pro- port... ...d flame and present trustee Mr. Pole. The ladies had fought against her in London, and since their installation at Brookfield they had announced to th... ...quiet place. I promised to, and he promised he would have dinner for me at Richmond Hill, in the country, and he would bring friends to hear me.” “Go ... ...said, “Isn’t this gassy, and stifling? I confess I do like a carriage, and Richmond on a Sunday. And then, with two daughters, you know! But what I co...

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... line with hundreds of others of the same kind, along a wide road in South London. Now and again the trams hummed by, but the room was foreign to the ... ...s hummed by, but the room was foreign to the trams and to the sound of the London traffic. It was Helena’s room, for which she was responsible. The wa... ...ame which flooded him.... But it died out, and he thought of the return to London, to Beatrice, and the children. How would it be? Beatrice, with her ... ...ong. Mr MacNair is very evidently tired out.’ ‘Yes—yes. It is very tiring, London.’ When the door was closed, Helena stood a moment unde- cided, looki... ...ht halo of fire. How could it be that he and Helena were two chil- dren of London wandering to find their lodging in Freshwa- ter? He sighed, and look... ...?’ said Vera, as if resuming a conversation. ‘Shall it be Hampton Court or Richmond on Sunday?’ ‘I say, as I said before,’ replied Beatrice: ‘I cannot...

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...ls it isn’t. And I don’t carry ‘em there, nei- ther. Anyhow, I comes back. London’s my mark. Says I, I’ll see a bit o’ the sea, and steps aboard a col... ... out of her wits, and lay in a desperate state awaiting the arrival of the London doc- tors. It was added that the servants had all threatened to leav... ...sign of degeneracy,” the lady remarked. “He rhymes very prettily to me.” A London phrenologist, and a friendly Oxford Professor of poetry, quieted Sir... ...his incalcu- lable loss of to-night: he would forgive and love his father, London, the life, the world. Just to see those purple backs and white breas... ...anner, “I’ve come to propose to you to join us in a little dinner-party at Richmond. Nobody’s in town, you know. London’s as dead as a stock-fish. Not... ...trouble to get them together to relieve the dulness of your incarceration. Richmond’s within the rules of your prison. You can be back by night. Moonl... ...ch Brayder communicated a queer glance to Adrian, and applauded the youth. Richmond was under a still October sun. The pleasant land- scape, bathed in... ...king about you. Do you know, that—Mrs. Mount—never saw you all the time at Richmond, or in the boat!” 322 Ordeal of Richard Feverel “Oh!” Ripton said... ...otman was diligent; the champagne corks feebly recalled the file-firing at Richmond. “We’ll drink to what we might have been, Dick,” said the enchantr...

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...r, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he came to London to study law. In 1816 he opened his chambers as a special pleader, a... ...lationship. Almost all, too, lived in near neighbourhood in those parts of London that now are comparatively deserted, but which were then the especia... ...h his letters, and he was a capital dancer in the Christmas parties at his London home. He had likewise the courage and patience sure to be needed by ... ...ays she never recollects a time when Master Coley had to leave Feniton for London without his offering the servants to take charge of their messages o... ... as the railway communication was still incomplete, so that the journey to London was a great fatigue to an invalid, her desire to spend Christmas in ... ...ginning of December, when the admirable crayon like- ness was taken by Mr. Richmond, an engraving from which is here given. He then took his last leav... ... old mahogany desk. Her picture and his, the large framed photographs from Richmond’s drawing, and a good photograph of the Bishop are just above. I w...

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...n of having first expressed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expr... ...ist in railing at Seward for saying it. Even Roger A. Pryor, editor of the Richmond Enquirer, uttered the same sentiment in almost the same language, ... ...as that the three representatives of the Southern Confederacy were then in London, that Lord John Russell had not yet seen them, but that he was not u... ...ted the in- surrectionary government to be transferred to their capital at Richmond. The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrec- tio... ...tion of the products of industry of all nations, which is to take place at London in the course of next year. As citizens of the United States may jus... ...ed States at the exhibition of the industry of all nations to be holden at London in the year 1862. I regret to say I have been unable to give persona... ... of circulars an- nouncing the decisions of Her Majesty’s commissioners in London, giving directions to be observed in regard to articles intended for... ... secretary to the executive com- mittee to the in exhibition to be held in London in the course present year, and a copy of the correspond which it re... ...d now allow me to ask, do you really think I should per- mit the line from Richmond via Manaasas Junction to this city to be entirely open, except wha...

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...Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the fol...

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...LEAP WELL Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richm... ...er shade, To pipe a simple song to thinking hearts, As I from Hawes to Richmond did repair, It chanc’d that I saw standing in a dell Three asp... ...another. —Some little I’ve seen of blind boisterous works In Paris and London, ‘mong Christians or Turks, Spirits busy to do and undo: At reme... ...th Pedlar’s wares, And with this Basket on his arm, the Lad Went up to London, found a Master there, Who out of many chose the trusty Boy To g...

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...d III. Brothers to the King. A young son of Clarence. (Boy:) HENRY: Earl of Richmond, (RICHMOND:) afterwards King Henry VII. CARDINAL BOURCHIER : Ar... ...:) TRESSEL and BERKELEY: Gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne. Lord Mayor of London. (Lord Mayor:) Sheriff of Wiltshire. (Sheriff:) ELIZABETH: Queen ... ...nger:) (Fourth Messenger:) SCENE: England. KING RICHARD III ACT I SCENE I: London. A street. [Enter GLOUCESTER, solus .] GLOUCESTER: Now is the win... ...d make your majesty joyful as you have been! QUEEN ELIZABETH : The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby. To your good prayers will scarcely say a... ... my noble lord. [Exeunt.] King Richard III, Act I, scene iii 26 SCENE IV: London. The Tower. [Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY .] BRAKENBURY: Why loo... ...ere I must not stay. King Richard III, Act I, scene iv 34 ACT II SCENE I: London. The palace. [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH... ...s to children. If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaught... ...l, that takest thy leave of it! DUCHESS OF YORK : [To DORSET .] Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee! [To LADY ANNE .] Go thou to Richar... ...! what news with you? STANLEY: My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset’s fled To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea Where he abides. [Stands apart .]...

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...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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...t tidy, fidg- ety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Grea... ...s Rampart; and one day, when we were exercising on the ground on which the London University now stands, he says, says he, Tibbs (calling me from the ... .... Alfred Tomkins, addressing the company in general, ‘I shall ride down to Richmond to-day, and come back by the steamer. There are some splendid effe... ...erful as his love of life. Mr. Augustus Minns had no relations, in or near London, with the exception of his cousin, Mr. Octavius Budden, to whose son... ... street on the Surrey side of the water, within three minutes’ walk of old London Bridge, Mr. Joseph Tuggs—a little dark-faced man, with shiny hair, t... ...tra, by a fat man in black tights and cloudy Berlins. ‘Mrs. Tippin, of the London theatres, ’ replied Belinda, referring to the programme of the conce...