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Pall Mall

(păl′ măl′, pĕl′ mĕl′)

A fashionable street in London, England, noted as the site of St. James's Palace and many private clubs. It derives its name from the game pall-mall, which was played on the grounds in front of the palace in the 1600s.

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Pall Mall

(ˈpæl ˈmæl)

(Placename) a street in central London, noted for its many clubs

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Pall Mall - a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs

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And so, instead of crying because she was the merest nobody, she must, forsooth, sail jauntily down Pall Mall, very trim as to her tackle and ticketed with the insufferable air of an engaged woman.

This is what she does: sets sail for Pall Mall, wearing all her pretty things, including the blue feathers, and with such a sparkle of expectation on her face that I stir my coffee quite fiercely.

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The "Typhoon" appeared in the early numbers of the Pall Mall Magazine, then under the direction of the late Mr.

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>From the Strand he crossed Trafalgar Square into Pall Mall, and up the Haymarket into Piccadilly.

The careless glance of a lounger on the pavement of Pall Mall filled him with a sudden anger.

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Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening.

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Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.

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It is such as he, as little conscious of himself as the bee in a hive, who are the lucky in life, for they have the best chance of happiness: their activities are shared by all, and their pleasures are only pleasures because they are enjoyed in common; you will see them on Whit-Monday dancing on Hampstead Heath, shouting at a football match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession.

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Along Pall Mall the taxi in which she was seated gained considerably, but in the Park and along the Bird Cage Walk both the other taxies, risking the police regulations, drew almost alongside.

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Sabin dined together - not, as it happened, at the House of Commons, but at the former's club in Pall Mall. For Mr.

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I saw the PALL MALL GAZETTE on the table by the door.

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When the session closed, the doctor was escorted to the rooms of the Travellers' Club, in Pall Mall. A superb entertainment had been prepared there in his honor.