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Street, or Pall-mall, for the modern mansions are all shew, with no comfort or warmth in them.
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London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster-R.w, 1753.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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His Lordship has but recently returned to this country on leave of absence; but, if the sages of Pall-mall are to be believed, he will not resume his arduous and thankless mission.
Echoes of the Week 1865
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The Athenæum is being completely restored, renovated, and beautified, inside and out; and, with its new coat of stucco and frieze cleared from the smoky accumulations of twenty years, makes a noble appearance at the corner of Pall-mall.
Echoes of the Week 1865
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St. Petersburg, and the dining-rooms of the best Pall-mall clubs.
Echoes of the Week 1865
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Guards 'Monument in Pall-mall speaks of Russian valour and English blundering it may be allowed to stand, with an amended inscription inserted without Mr. Bell's permission.
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Pall-mall was either croquet or its nearest relative, and was so much the fashion that games were given in order to keep up political influence, perhaps, because the freedom of a garden pastime among groves and bowers afforded opportunities for those seductive arts on which
The Chaplet of Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Whitehall and that of any modern club-house in Pall-mall.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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I therefore made prize of the captain, who was an intelligent man, with an abundance of fresh political chit-chat, and odds and ends of scandal from Paddington to the Bank, and from Pall-mall to Parliament-street, brimful of extracts and essences of Athenaeums, United-Services, and other hebdomadals.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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Besides, they are always the faint reflection of higher lights; and, if they do display a little occasional foolery in their own proper persons, it is surely more tolerable than precocious puppyism in the Quadrant, whiskered dandyism in Regent - street and Pall-mall, or gallantry in its dotage anywhere.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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