...in London thoroughfares. Mr. Pickwick's chronicler could tell of hah* a dozen — " Great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries and passages...enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories " — which in that day had degenerated from being the headquarters of spanking coaches " into little...

...old inns which have preserved their external features unchanged. Great rambling, queer old places, with galleries and passages and staircases wide enough...to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories." When Dickens wrote these words, the old Tabard Inn from which Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims started...

...The inn where Sam Weller was boots. — " There are in London several old Inns— great, rambling, queer old places they are, with galleries and passages...enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories . . . one of these a no less celebrated one than the ' White Hart.' " — Pickwick Papers. Whitrose,...

...old inns which have preserved their external features unchanged. Great rambling, queer old places, with galleries and passages and staircases wide enough...to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories." When Dickens wrote these words, the old Tabard Inn from which Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims started...

...they stood for in the lives of our robust forbears ! " Great, rambling, queer old places they were, with galleries and passages and staircases wide enough...antiquated enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghosts," but with jolly roaring fires in the grates, and parlours decked with red holly, and plenty...

...to those inns that Dickens has immortalised for us " with their great rambling, queer old galleries, passages and staircases, wide enough and antiquated...enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories " ; with their hospitable fires, wide portals and spacious noble rooms ; in which Wilkie Collins spun...

...inns which have preserved their external features unchanged ; great 40 rambling, queer old places, with galleries and passages and staircases wide enough...to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories." In respect of the galleries with heavy balustrades and flowerpots, the George is to-day the sole survivor...

...half-dozen old inns, which have preserved their external features unchanged. . . . Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...staircases, wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish material for a hundred ghost stories, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity...

...alike the rage for public improvement, and theencroachments of private speculation. Great rambling, queer, old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...furnish materials for a hundred ghost .stories.'' One of these, the White Hart, deserved a much better fate than that which overtook it in 1889, when...

...alike the rage for public improvement, and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling, queer, old places they are, with galleries, and passages,...reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any... Pickwick Papers' If the Romantic period offered us meagre fare, the work of Dickens alone in the following...