Hummums

I had been staying at a little hotel in Covent Garden called the Hummums! and got nothing but roast beef and flounders, and my imagination was getting into a coma.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

I had been staying at a little hotel in Covent Garden called the Hummums! and got nothing but roast beef and flounders, and my imagination was getting into a coma.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

[1035] Baths are called Hummums in the East, and thence these hotels in Covent Garden, where there were baths, were called by that name.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[1035] Baths are called Hummums in the East, and thence these hotels in

Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

I made the best of my way to Fleet Street, and there got a late hackney chariot and drove to the Hummums in Covent Garden.

Great Expectations 2007

Not long before, I had read in the newspapers, how a gentleman unknown had come to the Hummums in the night, and had gone to bed, and had destroyed himself, and had been found in the morning weltering in blood.

Great Expectations 2007

Upper Temple, was there no philanthropist good-natured enough to devise a set of Hummums for the benefit of the lawyers, his fellows and successors?

The History of Pendennis 2006

Got up at nine, and went down to the Hummums for a bath.

Vanity Fair 2006

My wife went to the Hummums; (it is a place where people get themselves cupped.)

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

A waiter at the Hummums, in which house Ford died, had been absent for some time, and returned, not knowing that Ford was dead.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004