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But I will say that the general problem is one of the most difficult with which social science has to deal." "I know what had ought to be done. The blaggards ought to be shot. Damn every last one of them, I say." Klinker conversed in his anger something like the ladies of Billingsgate, but Queed did not notice this.
Presently she took up some slight remark made by my mother, which, though it did not naturally mean anything of the sort, could be twisted into some reflection upon England, and made it a handle, first of vulgar sarcasm, and then, upon my mother's defending herself with some surprise and gentle dignity, hurled upon her a volley of abuse, beyond Billingsgate.
Bartholomew; why erected here I can't think, as St. Bartholomew is in Smithfield; we had a glimpse of Billingsgate, and of the Mansion House, where we saw the two-and-twenty-shilling-coal smoke coming out of the chimneys, and were landed at the Custom House in safety.
We are a bad-tempered pair, and we behave rather like fishwives when we are in a rage. But when we are guests in other people's houses " Lady Mallowe's temper was as elemental as any Billingsgate could provide. "You think you can take advantage of that!" she said. "Don't trust yourself too far. Do you imagine that just when all might go well for me I will allow you to spoil everything?"
From this beginning ensued one of the most noted and romantic feuds of the seventeenth century. After the death of this outspoken lady her husband's father had accused the great Bess of occasionally using the language of Billingsgate the Rufford estate passed to the Savile family, her sister-in-law, Lady Mary Talbot, having married a Lincolnshire baronet of that name.
Andrew Hubberd, St. Benet Sherehog, St. Leonard, Eastcheap, All Hallows the Less, Holy Trinity, St. Martin Vintry, St. Laurence Poultney, St. Botolph Billingsgate, St. Thomas Apostle, St. Mary Mounthaut, St. Peter's, St. Gregory's by St Paul, and St. Anne's Blackfriars thirteen in all. At St.
'There was a fishfag of classic Billingsgate, who had broken her husband's nose with a sledgehammer fist, and swore before the magistrate, that the man hadn't a crease to complain of in her character. We are condemned, Mr. Carling, sometimes to suffer in the flesh for the assurance we receive of the inviolability of those moral fortifications.
The clock at the Town Hall is said to be from a "scrapped" city church and the gilt vane on the turret of Purbeck House on the other side of the way is from Billingsgate. Not the least surprising of these relics are the lamp-and-corner-posts bearing the names of familiar London parishes. The irresponsible partners commemorated this by erecting a stone column surmounted by four cannon balls.
Whether fishermen live or die, sink or swim, the inexorable demand of Billingsgate for fish must be met!
We now wished to see the Thames, and therefore threaded our way along Thames Street, towards London Bridge, passing through a fish-market, which I suppose to be the actual Billingsgate, whence originated all the foul language in England. Under London Bridge there is a station for steamers running to Greenwich and Woolwich.
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