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"If private industry and the Stock Exchange are to revive," the article concluded, "they must devise between them new ways of inducing broader masses of the population to come down and play their part in Throgmorton Street."
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Lancashire, of which the older form appears in Bickersteth, and the local name Throgmorton is spelt by Camden Frogmorton, just as Pepys invariably writes Queenhive for Queenhythe.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The little craft, with the black top, is called the Throgmorton; and the one alongside the
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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Until May confronts the script she's written, strengthens the Carla-Michael thread and faces the fact that Doreen is a supporting figure, it doesn't matter if she calls the result "George is Dead," "Roger is Dead" or "Throgmorton is Dead."
David Finkle: First Nighter: Woody Allen Sparks Relatively Speaking, While Elaine May, Ethan Coen Lack Luster David Finkle 2011
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Until May confronts the script she's written, strengthens the Carla-Michael thread and faces the fact that Doreen is a supporting figure, it doesn't matter if she calls the result "George is Dead," "Roger is Dead" or "Throgmorton is Dead."
David Finkle: First Nighter: Woody Allen Sparks Relatively Speaking, While Elaine May, Ethan Coen Lack Luster David Finkle 2011
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Do you know how hard it is to find talented guys named Throgmorton?
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English ambassador Throgmorton, and others, your friends, are all alike of opinion, that whatever deeds or instruments you execute within these walls, must lose all force and effect, as extorted from your Grace by duresse, by sufferance of present evil, and fear of men, and harm to ensue on your refusal.
The Abbot 2008
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But I thought young Caryll was to marry one of the Throgmorton daughters.
The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007
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A few days before she effected her escape from Lochleven Castle, the righteous Regent sent these, with a choice collection of her jewels, very secretly to London, by his trusty agent, Sir Nicholas Elphinstone, who undertook to negotiate their sale, with the assistance of Throgmorton, to whom he was directed for that purpose.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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If anything farther than the letters of Drury and Throgmorton be required to prove the confederacy between the English Government and the Earl of Moray, it will only be necessary to expose the disgraceful fact of the traffic of Queen Mary's costly parure of pearls, her own personal property, which she had brought with her from France.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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Cat in the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones.
September 5, 2010