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Night Side of London 49: Almost every house you come to is a public-house, or something worse. Here there is a free-and-easy after the theatres are over; there a lounge open all night for the entertainment of bullies and prostitutes. Night Side of London 221: Gents and bagsmen on their way home from the city. Night Side of London 134: We enter, we will say, Bang Up’s hostelry, about ten on a Thursday evening; there is Bang Up at the bar, with his ton of flesh and broken nose. Night Side of London 158: With their close-fitting caps, Belcher handkerchiefs, and heavy animal faces, [they] are certainly not very pleasant-looking young men. Night Side of London 157: Now; then, old buffer, another quartern of gin. Night Side of London 40: A lounge open all night for the entertainment of bullies and prostitutes. Night Side of London 219: I do n’t believe naturally men or women are these dull clods. Night Side of London 69: A crimp [...] charged with having taken into his possession the money and effects of James Hall. Night Side of London 202: The poor wretch that crawls along the street, all rouged and decked out in finery [...] is ‘a dashing Cyprian’. Night Side of London 101: He was on his way to Tyburn drop. Night Side of London 51: She is too far gone to have any decency left. Drink and sadness combined have tortured her brain to madness. Night Side of London 202: The penny-a-liners – who write on ‘flimsey’. Night Side of London 139: At each successful attempt the chorus was still more animated, [...] as ‘Good stroke,’-‘Bad flewke’ – ‘On the red,’ &c. &c. The game that was being played was called ‘pool’. Night Side of London 166: The time admits of a man getting ‘fou’ between the commencement and the close of the entertainment. Night Side of London 38: A group of youthful costermongers and their wives, who have come here for a lark, just as they frequent the penny gaff. Night Side of London 48: The gay women, as they are termed, are worse off than American slaves. Night Side of London 195: The pots of heavy and the quarterns of juniper are freely quaffed. Night Side of London 221: Fat old women with their baskets filled with prog. Night Side of London 118: Wine-shades attract us; we hear the clink of billiards. Night Side of London 108: He is a billiard-room shark. Night Side of London 212: The young hopefuls come in [...] do their pale ale, and adopt the slang and the vices of their betters. Night Side of London 122: The prizefighter, when his day is over, generally keeps a public-house, which is generally called a sporting-house. Night Side of London 173: I paid sixpence and went with the operative swells into the gallery. Night Side of London 70: A few fast clerks and warehousemen, who confidentially inform each other that there is ‘no end of talent here.’. Night Side of London 193: Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightener (have my dinner) . Night Side of London 153: What, you are trying it on again, are you? you know you can’t come here. Night Side of London 70: Here, as elsewhere, we see a few of the class of unfortunates, whose staring eyes would fain extort an admiration which their persons do not justify. Night Side of London (2nd edn) 168: Brown with his all-round collar, Jones with his Noah’s Ark coat, Robinson with the straight tile, which young England deems the cheese, delight us no more with their snobby appearance and gentish airs.