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  • You and he yawn together out of the same omnibus-box every night; you fancy yourselves men of pleasure; you fancy yourselves men of fashion; you fancy yourselves men of taste; in fancy, in taste, in opinion, in philosophy, the newspaper legislates for you; it is there you get your jokes and your thoughts, and your facts and your wisdom — poor Pall Mall dullards.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • You and he yawn together out of the same omnibus-box every night; you fancy yourselves men of pleasure; you fancy yourselves men of fashion; you fancy yourselves men of taste; in fancy, in taste, in opinion, in philosophy, the newspaper legislates for you; it is there you get your jokes and your thoughts, and your facts and your wisdom — poor Pall Mall dullards.

    Burlesques 2006

  • I was on hand, and tailed on to them at the door; he noticed me, but didn't say anything, and I was allowed to follow into the omnibus-box which he had engaged directly beside the stage.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • That long familiar feature, "Fops 'Alley," having disappeared from the auditorium, the modish thing for unattached men was to make up a party and hire an omnibus-box; and from that position to pronounce judgment upon the legs of the dancers pirouetting in wispy gauze on the stage.

    The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

  • You and he yawn together out of the same omnibus-box every night; you fancy yourselves men of pleasure; you fancy yourselves men of fashion; you fancy yourselves men of taste; in fancy, in taste, in opinion, in philosophy, the newspaper legislates for you; it is there you get your jokes and your thoughts, and your facts and your wisdom -- poor Pall Mall dullards.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "There -- in the omnibus-box beneath Mdlle. de Cardoville's."

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 08 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • The omnibus-box was occupied by the Englishman, the eccentric and portentous bettor, whose presence inspired Morok with so much dread.

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 08 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • The omnibus-box was occupied by the Englishman, the eccentric and portentous bettor, whose presence inspired Morok with so much dread.

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • "There -- in the omnibus-box beneath Mdlle. de Cardoville's."

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • "He was surrounded by the professors of morality from the omnibus-box, who said that Donna Lola was positively not to reappear.

    The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

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