Mondays and Fridays were the great days for bullock-hunting, an inhuman and brutal sport that throve in the neighbourhoods of Hackney and Bethnal Green, with the sanction, if not with the connivance, of the peace officers of those parishes.
Country magistrates unanimously reported that the bulk of the more serious offences recently committed in their respective neighbourhoodswas the work of strangers from the great towns.
It is true that the herrings have disappeared in certain neighbourhoods in which they were formerly very plentiful; but it is also certain that, in many of the fishing stations, fish are taken all the year round.
It appears, in short, that there are different varieties which haunt the several neighbourhoods in which they abound.
He had regarded Dalton Street in a very special sense as a reproach to St. John's, but now he saw that all such neighbourhoods were in reality a reproach to the city, to the state, to the nation.
Many of them were connected by blood with more fortunate parishioners, but economic pressure had scattered them throughout new neighbourhoods and suburbs.
The dispossessed Jagos had gone to infect the neighbourhoods across the border, and to crowd the people a little closer.
But the Jago in flesh and blood still lives, and is crowding into neighbourhoods already densely over-populated.
To show how remarkably neighbourhoods alter by time and circumstance, I recollect it was said that Lord Molyneux, while hunting, once ran a hare down Copperas-hill.
It is a curious thing to watch the changes that have taken place from time to time in different neighbourhoods as to the character of the inhabitants.
The former of these belonged to a gang of fortune-telling impostors, who lived in the poor neighbourhoods of West London.
It is then a terrible fact, certainly true, of all the poor neighbourhoods of London.
In many neighbourhoods he is peculiarly at the mercy of this lower class white electorate, and the self-seeking politicians whose stock in trade consists in playing upon the passions of race-hatred.
I have visited a number of mill neighbourhoods and talked with the operatives.
Confusion of Labour and Race Problems An illustration of the confusion between the race problem and the labour problem is presented in certain Southern neighbourhoods by the influx of European immigrants.
A strong prejudice exists against renting flats and houses in many white neighbourhoods to coloured people.
The white people were gravitating toward the towns or into white neighbourhoods and leaving the land, even though still owned by white men, more and more to the exclusive occupation of Negroes.
All this day I have been wandering about the most obscure and wretched neighbourhoodsof London--not knowing whither to go, and afraid to be seen by any one who may recognise me.
In Devon it frequents the rough ground near the cliffs at Sidmouth and Torquay; and it has also been reported as appearing at Stratford-on-Avon, Shenstone near Lichfield, and the neighbourhoods of Swanage and Tyneham.
Charts of successful begging neighbourhoods are rudely drawn, and symbolical signs attached to each house to show whether benevolent or adverse.
In old neighbourhoods and especially farm neighbourhoods people come to know one another--not clothes knowledge, or money knowledge--but that sort of knowledge which reaches down into the hidden springs of human character.
A few days later I heard by the roundabout telegraph common in country neighbourhoods that Horace had found a good deal of fun in reporting what I said about farming and that he had called me by a highly humorous but disparaging name.
The old coaching inns have entered upon a new era of prosperity by reason of the crowds of cyclists who fare forth from London along the ancient highways, or explore, awheel, the neighbourhoods of provincial towns.
It was a perfect index to the country neighbourhoods that spread east and north to the flat, black corn lands, west to the marl and clay of the river district, and south to the tall-weeded, oozy Bottoms.
It delights in neighbourhoods covered with groves and thickets situated in the vicinity of water.
Although they live little in the water, Wild Geese repair every evening to the ponds and rivers in theirneighbourhoods to pass the night; so that the Wild Goose only takes to the water when the Wild Duck is leaving it.
The red deer belonged by inexorable law to the kings of Scotland, and great drives, which often lasted for several days, were made to round up the herds into given neighbourhoods for the pleasure of the court, as in the reign of Queen Mary.
Yet the breeds just mentioned are all of unimpeachable ancestry, and the circumstance that they were formerly bred within limited neighbourhoods is in itself an argument in favour of their purity.
The new regulation, enjoining grocers to sell coffee and chicory properly labelled as such, is, no doubt, observed in respectable shops; but in the low neighbourhoods the mixture as before is passed off for genuine Mocha.
The great waggons of cabbages, with growers' men and boys lying asleep under them, and with sharp dogs from market-garden neighbourhoods looking after the whole, were as good as a party.
Nothing in shy neighbourhoods perplexes my mind more, than the bad company birds keep.
I know shy neighbourhoods where the Donkey goes in at the street door, and appears to live up-stairs, for I have examined the back-yard from over the palings, and have been unable to make him out.
For human notes we may return to such neighbourhoods when leisure and opportunity serve.
A large number of the Indians, deeply attached to the neighbourhoods wherein lay their homes, refused to follow the missionaries, and in the end resisted the unwelcome decree.
The chief goldfields of Uruguay lie in the northern province of Rivera, and are situated in the neighbourhoods of Corrales, Cunapiru, and Zapucaya.
Indeed, piled on the summit of cliffs and bluffs, the white masses of masonry, crowned by a few steeples and towers, are visible from far inland upon the Argentine territory as well as from the remoterneighbourhoods of its own soil.
One of the sights of poor neighbourhoods is that of a large barrel, painted red, on wheels.
They always are in poorneighbourhoods of a night, and especially such as have a corner situation.
In such low neighbourhoods as Drury Lane it seemed to me that the men preponderated; indeed, at many places they were the only customers.
This is why they live in St. Giles’s or in Whitechapel, where the sight of their numbers is appalling, or why they crowd into such low neighbourhoods as abound in Drury Lane.
These low neighbourhoods are really disgusting to people of cultivated minds and refined tastes.
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