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" This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 361
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The Diary: With an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 846 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad nv's being put in from the fleet, maimed as the other ships are. 6th. * j with the Du into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was 1 Sir Henry Felton, of Phyford, Suffolk,...
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St. Giles of the Lepers

Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 272 pages
...houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us' writ there which was a sad sight to me being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some rolled tobacco to smell...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 860 pages
...a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into op of I.ondon. я Afterwards Sir Robert Slingsby, Compt 1 Sir Henry Felton, of Pbyfnrd, Suffolk, Bait. [В.] 2 Vauxhall. 317 forced to buy some roll-tobacco...
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Works, Volume 9

Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 342 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord, have mercy upon us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." " June 17 th. — It struck me very deep this afternoon going with a hackney coach from [the] Lord...
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St. Nicotine of the Peace Pipe

Edward Vincent Heward - Smoking - 1909 - 236 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and, ' Lord, have mercy upon us,' writ there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. It put me in an ill-conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chaw,...
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Samuel Pepys, Administrator, Observer, Gossip

Esther Meynell - Authors, English - 1909 - 412 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord, have mercy upon us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." This sad sight Pepys was to behold often during the following weeks and months. But in his early entries...
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Red-letter Days of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 482 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us ! " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll- tobacco to smell...
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Diary of Samuel Pepys: F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty Inthe ..., Volume 1

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1906 - 688 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us ! " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell...
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Covent Garden: Its Romance and History

Reginald Jacobs - Covent Garden - 1913 - 334 pages
...red cross on the doors, and * See Appendix. ' Lord, have mercy on us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Adjoining the theatre there existed, until the recent improvement of the neighbourhood, a maze of courts...
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Natural History, Volume 21

Electronic journals - 1921 - 726 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us!' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to...myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some rolltobacco, to smell to, and chaw, which took away my apprehension." Writing some two decades prior...
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