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Alley (The)

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The Stock Exchange Alley.

John Rive, after many active years in the Alley, retired to the Continent, and died at the age of 118.”—Old and New London, p. 476.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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