10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THIEVES' KITCHEN»
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simpkin, marshall, and co. THIEVES' KITCHEN. THIEVES' KITCHEN". Here they
are, just as many police-men have found them. After prowling about, like wild
animals, snatching what they could from honest folk, they have at last come to
their ...
simpkin, marshall, and co., 1869
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Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial ...
24. Weir, “Some Features of London Life,” p. 352. 25. Donald Low, Thieves'
Kitchen: The Regency Underworld (London: J. M. Dent, 1982), p. 19. 26. Low,
Thieves' Kitchen, p. 20. 27. Low, Thieves' Kitchen, p. 20. 28. See The Memoirs of
James ...
3
The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where ...
Hailed by the European reformists as a means of preventing war, it was in reality
a mechanism of domination by the major imperialist powers. Lenin referred to it
as a "thieves' kitchen." During the 1930s, as the conditions of the masses grew ...
4
Charles Dickens: Family History
Every other tenement was a "thieves' kitchen," the resort of the scum of the earth.
Mr Starey and his coadjutors were often pelted with filth. Many a time he returned
from teaching covered with mud from head to heel. Their windows were broken ...
5
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
Bursting with thieves, receivers, footpads, and prostitutes, Alsatia was
immortalized by Hogarth in the 'Thieves' Kitchen'.52 The Customs and Excise
and the West India Company tried vainly to staunch this outflow of goods by
appointing ...
It was called the Thieves' Kitchen because no one knew where the horses came
from and nobody cared. No questions were asked. Red-faced and panting, the
cook led Sham to the bigopen shed of the Thieves' Kitchen. Sham was not
winded ...
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A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis
Murray's Handbook to London As It Is, 1879 LODGINGS, LOW The proprietor has
heard of his establishment being mentioned even in print, in a police report, as a
“thieves' kitchen” a title which he holds to be altogether libellous; there is a ...
8
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism ...
... in the territory through the rest ofthe 1880s. He ran the supply base for the ill-
fated Sanford Exploring Expedition and worked for the surveyors charting the
course for the railway around the rapids. 195 13. Breaking into the Thieves'
Kitchen.
9
Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah
... mult- vult, magnoperous, had bulked at the bar of a rota of tribunals in manor
hall as in thieves' kitchen, mid pillow talk and chithouse chat, on Marlborough
Green as through Molesworth Fields, here sentenced pro tried with Jedburgh
justice, ...
10
Jennings Follows a Clue
“Well,” said Jennings, “I just walked into the thieves' kitchen, and spoke to the
chap like Sherlock Holmes would have done. And he got the wind up and gave it
back without a struggle.” “What's a thieves' kitchen like?” Venables had been
trying ...
