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Grub Street

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Grub Street
London street; home of indigent writers. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 394]
See : Poverty
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So it was strange to me to discover presently that he had not been thinking of me at all, but of his own young days, when that couplet sang in his head, and he, too, had thirsted to set off for Grub Street, but was afraid, and while he hesitated old age came, and then Death, and found him grasping a box-iron.
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
 
 
 
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