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  • All of which, during the whole of the interview, was confirmed by the ferocious growling of Mim down below in the pay-place, which shook the giant like a leaf.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • All of which, during the whole of the interview, was confirmed by the ferocious growling of Mim down below in the pay-place, which shook the giant like a leaf.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • Mim swearing most horrible and terrific, in a pink calico pay-place, at the slackness of the public.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • Mim swearing most horrible and terrific, in a pink calico pay-place, at the slackness of the public.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • The industrious poor of Edge-hill found in Williamson a ready friend in time of need, and when work was slack many a man has come to the pay-place on Saturday, who had done nothing all the week but dig a hole and fill it up again.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • Whereupon she went to the pay-place, when the gallant stage-manager put down a week's salary as of old, which the lady took up, returning it however, and placing at the same time in Mr. Clarke's hand, a note for 20 pounds, which she desired him to distribute amongst the most needy of the company.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • "And many a week's salary I have had there," continued the buxom visitor, pointing to the pay-place, "and now just let me have something paid to me to remind me of old times."

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • He had hardly returned to the box office, when a gentleman of a certain age hurried up the steps, and rushed towards the pay-place with a haste my previous success probably justified, β€œis there any room left?” he asked in a panting voice.

    Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

  • A grave official marshalled the customer to the pay-place.

    The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • All of which, during the whole of the interview, was confirmed by the ferocious growling of Mim down below in the pay-place, which shook the giant like a leaf.

    Doctor Marigold Charles Dickens 1841

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