"Mall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opens well with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr. Johnson. It could hardly have been done better, and it will convey to the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than either of the two essays of Lord Macaulay."—Pall Mall Gazette. ...
— Hawthorne - (English Men of Letters Series) • Henry James, Junr.
... Vice Roy, and laid out with much taste and expence. All the extremity of the garden is a fine terrace which commands a view of the water, and is frequented by people of fashion, as their Grand Mall: at each end of the terrace there is an octagonal built room, superbly furnished, where merendas[96-1] are sometimes given. On the pannels are painted the various productions and commerce of South America, ...
— Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora - Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the - South Seas, 1790-1791 • Edward Edwards
... Mall, if you like, Miss Winter; it's little, it's good, it's quiet; interesting people go there; we'll make two more. How ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... looked rather distractedly towards Lady Locke, who was reading a military article in the Pall Mall Magazine with ...
— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens
... the peasant's door, addressed to the Virgin! Your first impression is unmixed delight—your next, a wish probably that you could introduce the fire-fly into England. Could one empty a few hatfuls along Pall-Mall or Bond Street, on opera nights, what an amazement would seize the people! We swept them up into the crown of our hat, and could not get enough of them; then we set them flying about our room, putting out the lights and shutting ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
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