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4 Quotes for 'William Harrison Ainsworth' in the Database.
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William Harrison Ainsworth Quotes
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One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a
citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer
in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom,
at prayer.
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: Old St. Paul's [1841]
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On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud
discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House,
then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of
the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of
buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was
immediately answered from every point along the river where a
bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: The Tower of London [1840]
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In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant
King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of
April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the
loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the
appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the
north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene
before him.
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: Windsor Castle [1843]
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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.
Topic: Wives
Source: Miser's Daughter (bk. III, ch. XV)
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