bankside

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• The Bankside had for many years been associated in the minds of Londoners with "sports and pastimes."

• He went to bed in good health, says Langbaine, and was found dead in the morning, in his own house on the Bankside.

• The bankside where the grey orchard twisted its trees, was a steep declivity, long and sharp, dropping down to the garden.

• The bear in the Winter's Tale was no doubt a real bear got from a bear pit, near by in the Bankside.

• It is pleasant to think of Bankside and the fields beyond it—the pleasure garden of London.