Holborn Hill

Holborn Hill, where he had great storehouses and drove a large trade.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

At Holborn Bridge, and on Holborn Hill, the confusion was greater than in any other part; for the crowd that poured out of the city in two great streams, one by Ludgate Hill, and one by

Barnaby Rudge 2007

Holborn Hill, and asking him to have some gathered that he might eat them at dinner.

A Child's History of England 2007

Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

Bleak House 2007

We had got to the top of Holborn Hill before I knew that it was merely a mechanical appearance, and that he was not smiling at all.

Great Expectations 2007

He walked along the tangible and real stones of Holborn Hill, an undersized boy; and yet he winked the winks, and thought the thoughts, and did the deeds, and said the sayings of an ancient man.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

Holborn Hill, though at the expense of something of a circuit.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

Without a sigh he left his lady in Norfolk Street to mix gin-sling for other admirers, and felt no regret though four brother navvies were going to make a stunning night of it at the ‘Salon de Seville dansant,’ at the bottom of Holborn Hill.

The Three Clerks 2004

I had watched this scene, for there was a gentleness about the poor woman that interested me; she now tottered away from the door, walking as well as she could down Holborn Hill; but her strength soon failed her; she leaned against a wall, and her head sunk on her bosom, while her pallid cheek became still more white.

The Last Man 2003

Descending Holborn Hill five years ago, you found yourself, when at the foot of that celebrated thoroughfare, at Snow Hill, just at that point where the words, "Here he is, father!" struck upon the parental ears of Mr. Squeers as his son and heir manfully "went for" Smike.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various