"Mansion house" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a tall, dull, helpless-looking individual, had walked up from the country; would prefer not to mention the place. He had hoped to have obtained a hospital letter at the Mansion House so as to obtain a truss for a bad rupture, but failing, had tried various other places, also in vain, win up minus money ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... past Saint Paul's, in whose shadow he has spent many hours reading old books at the stalls in Holywell Street, and the 'bus races along Cannon Street, is brought up almost on its hind wheels at the Mansion House Corner, and the author gets a brief glimpse of Princes Street and Moorgate Street, where he was once "something in the City" as we used to say, before the policeman's hand is lowered and the eastbound traffic roars along Threadneedle Street ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
... back room of the Mansion House sometimes produced a plaster cast from the recesses of his pocket, and muttered ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed
... weekly meeting of the Executive it was unanimously decided to appeal to the subscribers to the Mansion House Anti-Subscription ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various
... asked by the rector, and he kept the Ten Commandments scrupulously, so far as his home life was concerned. He respected the Church, as something which stood for solidity and the security of property, like Consols and the Mansion House, and he regarded Dissenters in much the same light as he did outside brokers, as persons who should be watched by the police. He did not try to worship both God and Mammon simultaneously; but, wholly unconsciously, he divided his life into two parts, that which ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
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