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Bankside   Listen
noun
Bankside  n.  The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a stream.






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"Bankside" Quotes from Famous Books



... our Lord, Lovel that of her father in the flesh, a respectable wharfinger of Bankside. Molly, Mawkin, Moll Lovel, "Long Moll Lovel," and other things similar she was to her kinsfolk and acquaintance, who had seen her handsome body outstrip her simple mind. Good girl that she was, she carried her looks ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... merchandise. But once pirates were hanged there. It was the first convenient place for inbound ships to dispose of this dirty, deep-sea cargo. Doubtless hereabout the lanes and building-tops were crowded with an idle throng as on a holiday, and wherries to the bankside and the play paused with suspended oar for a sight of the happy festival. Did Hamlet wait upon this ghastly prologue? Shakespeare himself, unplayed script in hand, mused how tragedy and farce go hand in hand. ...
— Wappin' Wharf - A Frightful Comedy of Pirates • Charles S. Brooks



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