Thames

Examples

• At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Glaciers spread from the poles towards the equator, until England to the Thames was covered in ice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1829 Brown also was the engineer for suspension bridges built over the Esk at Montrose and over the Thames at Hammersmith. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames, I do; and if Miss Pinkerton were there, I wouldn't pick her out, that I wouldn't. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Bell's steamboat between Glasgow and Greenock in 1812 was followed by five others in 1814; and seven steamboats plied on the Thames in 1817. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A party of people flying from London, as was frequent in those days, had come up the Thames in a boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat, but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This was first employed by the engineer Brunel in the construction of the Thames tunnel, which was begun in 1825 and opened as a thoroughfare in 1843. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I have thought it over again and again, said Herbert, and I think I know a better course than taking a Thames waterman. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Marconi himself, at the House of Commons, telegraphed by wireless across the Thames, a distance of 250 yards. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The sailor went on, till he got to Shore Lane, leading into Lower Thames Street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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