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Bow-bells   Listen
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Bow-bells  n. pl.  The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. "People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys."






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"Bow-bells" Quotes from Famous Books



... freedom than any class of Americans would consider decorous. It was often so with these holiday-folks in Greenwich Park; and, ridiculous as it may sound, I fancy myself to have caught very satisfactory glimpses of Arcadian life among the Cockneys there, hardly beyond the scope of Bow-Bells, picnicking in the grass, uncouthly gambolling on the broad slopes, or straying in motley groups or by single pairs of love-making youths and maidens, along the sun-streaked avenues. Even the omnipresent ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various



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