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At Bow street, on the corner, is the "Gaiety," a famous drinking saloon, flooded with light inside and out, with more than a half-dozen handsome barmaids.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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"Gaiety" seems to be rather a strong point with this author, for a little further on he says, "The garden should be gay throughout the month with the following plants," and then follows a list of about a hundred names which sound like complicated diseases of the internal organs.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Various
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In the beginning of this new dejection of hers, Mrs. Merillia was now seated in a stage box at the "Gaiety," with an elderly General of Life
The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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"At the bar; I didn't leave the 'Gaiety' for several days after."
Spring Days 1892
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We were going to be married, but he got ill, and we thought we had better wait; and I went to the 'Gaiety' again.
Spring Days 1892
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I got sick of going to the 'Gaiety' and asking those girls if they knew anything about you; so to cure myself I went to France, and I worked hard at my painting.
Spring Days 1892
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When you left the 'Gaiety' I searched London for you.
Spring Days 1892
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"Did you like the French cafe better than the 'Gaiety'?"
Spring Days 1892
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Journal been filled with Gallantries, or such Occurrences as had shewn her wholly divested of her natural Innocence, notwithstanding it might have been more pleasing to the Generality of Readers, I should not have published it; but as it is only the Picture of a Life filled with a fashionable kind of Gaiety and Laziness, I shall set down five Days of it, as I have received it from the Hand of my fair Correspondent.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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"No, please don't, and please don't go to the 'Gaiety'; he is a violent-tempered man; something dreadful might occur.
Spring Days 1892
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