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Fleet Street

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Fleet Street, street in the City of London, England. It was formerly the center of English journalism.
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I think of Fleet Street and Lincoln's Inn now with a shudder of disgust.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Then there is the Fortune Theatre near Cripplegate, and, most charming of all, two views--street and river fronts--the Duke's Theatre, Dorset Garden, in Fleet Street, designed by Wren, decorated by Gibbons--graceful, naive, dainty, like the work of a very refined Palladio, working minutely, perhaps more delicately than at Vicenza, in the already crowded city on the Thames side.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs who had just been rushed out of Fleet Street with still- wet newspapers and staring placards.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
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