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London and all its miseries: a caveat against those fated misfortunes, and predestinated dilemmas, which await all persons who are in pursuit of pleasure and amusement in London and its vicinity choose

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[UK] W. Kidd London and all its Miseries 33: A London fog is like pea-soup.
at peasouper, n.
[UK] W. Kidd London and all its Miseries 31: ‘Wandering stars,’ who walk in our public thoroughfares to entrap the unwary. These are well-dressed, and apparently modest women, of good figure and genteel bearing. The moment they think they have made an impression, they walk leisurely along, every now and then slyly glancing round, to see if their victim is ‘in tow.’ [...] the artful stranger, who decoys him [a worthy man] away for a double purpose – first, injuring his reputation (if he be a married man), and then, robbing him of every valuable.
at wandering star, n.
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