Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… were chained, naked, in rows of cages that flanked a promenade, and were wondered and jeered at through iron bars by London loungers -- Sir Thomas Ladbroke the banker, Bonnel Thornton the wit, and half-a-dozen other gentlemen, met … mad by an infuriated ox in the streets -- an inconvenience not in itself worth mentioning, for which the inhabitants of London are frequently indebted to their inestimable Corporation. She seized the creature literally by the horns, and so, …
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