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...ets and heated rooms. There are dozens of steamers to all sorts of places Gravesend, Greenwich, and Richmond; and such numbers of people, that whe... ... Hill, and catch a glimpse of the rich corn fields and beautiful orchards of Kent; or to stroll among the fine old trees of Greenwich Park, and survey...

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...ople settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a rough people too, they taught the savage Br... ... fought with these weapons. They were very fond of horses. The standard of Kent was the picture of a white horse. They could break them in and manage ... ...rious stones, called Kits Coty House, on Bluebell Hill, near Maidstone, in Kent, form another. We know, from examination of the great blocks of which ... ...number of smaller battles, there was a battle fought near Canter bury, in Kent; there was a battle fought near Charles Dickens 13 Chertsey, in Surre... ... ancient ruins, which the people call the ruins of King Arhtur’s Castle. Kent is the most famous of the seven Saxon kingdoms, because the Christian ... ...te of the name of Hastings, who had the boldness to sail up the Thames to Gravesend, with eighty ships. For three years, there was a war with these D... ...er bridal rein, made a brave speech to the troops at Tilbury Fort opposite Gravesend, which was received with such enthusiasm as is seldom known. Then... ... at Durham. She escaped in a man’s dress to get away in a French ship from Gravesend to France, but unhappily missed her husband, who had escaped too,... ...riends knew that, perfectly well, and desired nothing more. So, he went to Gravesend, in his royal barge, attended by certain lords, and watched by Du...

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...e river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as the win... ...staying there while I conduct the inquiry.” “Where is it, then?” “Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven mile drive before us.” “But I am all in the dark.... ...t drive, starting in Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside th... ...over his shoulder. The envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the... ... upon the fly leaf of a book, octavo size, no water mark. Hum! Posted to day in Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been gummed,... ...nd, madam?” “None. Neville wrote those words.” “And they were posted to day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, the clouds lighten, though I should no... ...ntroduce you,” he shouted, “to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee, in the county of Kent.” Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man’s face peeled...

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...he said. Mr. Smallways’ aged father, could remember Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then h... ...anishing horse- vans, motor-omnibuses ousted the horse-omnibuses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and cl... ...ith no sense of rhetorical irrelevance. They were big, coarse stokers from Gravesend. One was annoyed because his left pedal had come off, and the oth... ...herefore to make a cheerful little cyclist party of four into the heart of Kent, and to picnic and spend an indolent after- noon and evening among the... ...dence, attack larger centres. To be- gin with they selected Littlestone in Kent, chiefly because of its unassuming name. So they planned, and it seeme... ...inferiors, and hadn’t changed an idea from the cradle to the grave. He was Kentish and English, and that meant hops, beer, dog- rose’s, and the sort o...

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...e river to W oolwich and buy there; then I go to single farm-houses on the Kentish side, where I am known, and buy fowls and eggs and butter, and brin... ...ey lay in the same manner quite 135 Daniel Defoe down the river as low as Gravesend, and some far beyond: even everywhere or in every place where the... ... several of them ran in; and others lay at the Nore, and in the Hope below Gravesend. So that by the latter end of October there was a very great flee... ...and Sandwich, and all the other little places and ports round the coast of Kent and Essex. There was also a very good trade from the coast of Suffolk ...

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...know, Sir?’ in quired Mr. Tupman, with great interest. ‘Splendid—capital. Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent— apples, cherries, hops, and women. Glass of... ...resent at the ball, and to form his first impressions of the beauty of the Kentish ladies, was strong upon Mr. T upman. The temptation to take the str... ...think it is,’ said Mr. Wardle. ‘There ain’t a better spot o’ ground in all Kent, sir,’ said the hard headed man with the pippin—face; ‘there ain’t in ... ...got the better of him at last. ‘There ain’t a better spot o’ ground in all Kent,’ said the hard headed man again, after a pause. ‘’Cept Mullins’s Mead... ... Sir; old in every sense of the word. The founder of that family came into Kent when Julius Cae sar invaded Britain;—only one member of it, since, wh... ...elf. After a hearty breakfast, the four gentlemen sallied forth to walk to Gravesend, followed by a man bearing the stone in its deal box. They reache...

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...d Military Reform; this is the second edition, “dedi- cated to the Duke of Kent;” the first appears to have come out the year before, and had thus att... ...out seven o’clock. When you thought I was going to church, I went down the Kent Road, and walked on till I came to Gravesend, which is upwards of twen... ...s going to church, I went down the Kent Road, and walked on till I came to Gravesend, which is upwards of twenty miles from Blackheath; at about seven...

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...or, and gave the word, ‘Go on!’ Immediately, all that W . and S.W . division of London be- gan to slide away at a pace so lively, that I was over the ... ...s going (which was delightful), except that I was going abroad. So smooth was the old high road, and so fresh were the horses, and so fast went I, tha... ...adows, tinkering, chair- mending, umbrella-mending, clock-mending, knife-grind- ing? Surely, a pleasant thing, if we were in that condition of life, t... ...ld put on a black velvet waistcoat, for a chalky country in the dog- days, is one of the great secrets of nature that will never be discovered. I have... ...g and a fray turned up; but, in gen- eral, surprisingly little of this diversion was provided. Ex- cept in the Haymarket, which is the worst kept part... ...as to keep off Pressure, and preserve them, a comfort to their friends, for many years.’ Just my case—if I had only known it—when I was quietly baskin...

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...ere down in that district of the flat country tending to the Thames, where Kent and Surrey meet, and where the railways still be- stride the market-ga... ...ern Cleopatra. Anon, there would embark in that troop-ship when she got to Gravesend, a mighty general, of large property (name also unknown), who wou...

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...n very kind, good people who are relations of my nurse, and have come from Gravesend to see me. Aye, aye? said Steerforth, returning. I am glad to... ...ere soon collected as to that point, if I had; for I came to a stop in the Kent Road, at a terrace with a piece of water before it, and a great foolis... ...if I should have had any, though there had been a Swiss snow- drift in the Kent Road. But my standing possessed of only three- halfpence in the world ... ...vie with it. My shirt and trousers, stained with heat, dew, grass, and the Kentish soil on which I had slept and torn besides might have frightened th... ...k at a map on the other side of the room, and poring over the columns of a Kentish newspaper but they always attracted me back again; and when- ever ... ...os- pects. He was to leave that night, after supper, in a post-chaise, for Gravesend; where the ship, in which he was to make the voyage, lay; and was...

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... Mills had sailed, and Dora and I had gone aboard a great East Indiaman at Gravesend to see her; and we had had preserved ginger, and guava, and other... ...t authority. After an interval of Mrs. Kidgerbury the oldest inhabitant of Kentish Town, I believe, who went out charing, but was too feeble to execut... ...re gone. In the afternoon of the next day, my old nurse and I went down to Gravesend. We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; ... ...and he holding her, they solemnly passed away. The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore and fallen darkly upon me. CHAPTER ... ...n Agnes, she told me while she was toasting. Tom had taken her down into Kent for a wedding trip, and there she had seen my aunt, too; and both my a...

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... lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier brigs; fog lying... ... degrees, pine for bliss with the beloved object, at Margate, Ramsgate, or Gravesend. All the middle aged clerks think their families too large. All t... ...to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the... ...packed on the hired coach and pair that was to take her and her husband to Gravesend. It affected us to see Caddy clinging, then, to her deplorable ho...

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...d to be addressed to somewhere about the half-way house between London and Gravesend, two or three times put out his rough right arm, as seeking to wi... ... did me the honour to observe, Sir, to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent, that it was the hand of Josh: a rough and tough, and possibly an up-t... ...e she will drop down the river. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?’ ‘If you please, Walt... ...r. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?’ ‘If you please, Walter. I shall be happy anywhere... ...nally known to, and commended by, their late Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Kent and Y ork, to retire to a tub and live in it, by Gad! Sir, he’ d have ...

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...such a belea- guered city, invested by the great Marsh Forces of Essex and Kent. So the two old schoolfellows felt it to be, as, their din- ner done, ... ...ens down in that district of the flat country tending to the Thames, where Kent and Surrey meet, and where the railways still be- stride the market-ga... ...ern Cleopatra. Anon, there would embark in that troop-ship when she got to Gravesend, a mighty general, of large property (name also unknown), who wou...

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... lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier brigs; fog lying... ... degrees, pine for bliss with the beloved object, at Margate, Ramsgate, or Gravesend. All the middle aged clerks think their families too large. All t... ...to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the... ...packed on the hired coach and pair that was to take her and her husband to Gravesend. It affected us to see Caddy clinging, then, to her deplorable ho... ...m. At our usual bed time, Charley and I were rolling away seaward with the Kentish letters. It was a night’s journey in those coach times, but we had ...

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...Dragon? It an’t at all the sort of place for me. When I left London (I’m a Kentish man by birth, though), and took that situation here, I quite made u... ...t his low capacity, ‘Where was you rose?’ ‘Oh!’ said Martin ‘I was born in Kent.’ ‘And how do you like our country, sir?’ asked Mrs Hominy. ‘Very much... ...of her; the gangways were choked up; distracted women, obviously bound for Gravesend, but turning a deaf ear to all represen- tations that this partic... ...oulders, read, in the words and dashes following, this communication: ‘OFF GRAVESEND. ‘CLIPPER SCHOONER, CUPID ‘Wednesday night ‘EVER INJURED MISS PEC...

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... his conver- sation with Mr. Horrocks. “That there little black pig of the Kent sow’s breed must be uncommon fat now.” “It’s not quite busting, Sir Pi... ...ally interested. On one occasion he read out—”Arrival of the —th regiment. Gravesend, June 20.—The Ramchunder, East Indiaman, came into the river this...

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...nes and dignities for rebellion. Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. Grey, Earl of Kent, has but a small estate. Stanley, Earl of Derby, and King of Man. Mann... ...spoken of before, on the right hand. Barking, a town in sight on the left. Gravesend, a small town, famous for the convenience of its port; the larges... ...the Italian. Here was a church dedicated to St. Martin by Victred, King of Kent, and a house belonging to the Knights Templars; of either there are no...

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...o myself to get him well down the river in the boat; certainly well beyond Gravesend, which was a criti- cal place for search or inquiry if suspicion ... ... against it until dark. We should then be well in those long reaches below Gravesend, between Kent and Essex, where the river is broad and solitary, w... ...ark. We should then be well in those long reaches below Gravesend, between Kent and Essex, where the river is broad and solitary, where the waterside ... ...wer between the muddy banks, but the tide was yet with us when we were off Gravesend. As our charge was wrapped in his cloak, I purposely passed withi...

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... did me the honour to observe, Sir, to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent, that it was the hand of Josh: a rough and tough, and possibly an up-t... ...e she will drop down the river. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?’ ‘If you please, Walt... ...r. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?’ ‘If you please, Walter. I shall be happy anywhere... ...nally known to, and commended by, their late Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Kent and Y ork, to retire to a tub and live in it, by Gad! Sir, he’ d have ...