McCabe Secrets of the Great City 379: But fraud is frequently resorted to in many hells and in some of them, whether he loses or wins, the visitor is sure to be plundered of his valuables before he is allowed to depart. Nicholson Rogue’s Progress (1966) 45: I became very intimate with many of them some, indeed, attachés of the leviathan hell, Crockfords. 4/1: The house in question was a low ‘inferno’ where the stakes were low and the players lower still. Taylor Still Waters Run Deep II ii: Those muffs at the Home Office crow about shutting up the West End Hells but what’s chicken-hazard to time bargains?īelfast Morn. Surtees Young Tom Hall (1926) 64: He thro’d the dirt in all the London hell-keepers’ and horse-dealers’ faces. Thackeray Pendennis I 185: He frequents low gambling-houses and billiard-hells. Green Arts and Miseries of Gambling 307: O, truly is the gaming-house denominated a ‘hell’. 2/6: Lyons is a patron of low copper hells and every other resort of abandoned gamblers. Brinsley Peake Devil In London I iii: How devilish green you are! It was a little quiet hell, my fine fellow!īell’s Life in Sydney 12 Sept. June 565: He had dissipated at the minor West-end hells, and elsewhere, the last farthing. The old hell-keeper, at the close of the play, left, by accident, his watch on the table. ![]() Satirist (London) 3 Mar.495/1: Crockey soon plucked the victim of a wing full of feathers. Enquirer 4 June 2/3: These ‘hells’ are principally situated in the vicinity of the Theatres. (1871) 12: A fashionable hell in the western half of this well policed metropolis. III 130/1: A Transaction at a noted gambling house in Dame-street, Dublin known by the name of Hell, has much engaged the conversation of the fashionable world. Colman Spleen I i: I would fain have been among the red ribbands and black legs at Hell in the evening, and tried my luck with tossing the cubes about. ĭelightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 18: I’ll dress like a Gentleman and dine at Hell in the Palace-Yard, and sup at the Devil in Fleet-Street]. used to describe a variety of unpleasant or ‘sinful’ places. Maledicta III:1+2 25: Or perhaps it’s a flower, a grotto, a well, / The hope of the world, or a velvety hell.Ģ. The female pudendum ‘the bottomless pit’ ‘hell’. Heaven must forgive so sweet a sin.įarmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 106: Enfer, m. ‘Hence, hence’ in Wardroper (1969) 70: If this can be the gate of hell, No flesh can hold from entering in. Swetnam Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and unconstant Women 19: If thy head be in her lap she will make thee beleeue that thou art hard by Gods seat, when indeed thou art iust at hell gate. ![]() Shakespeare King Lear IV vi: There’s hell, there’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption. Florio Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Valle di Acheronte, a womans priuie parts or gheare.
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