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HARLEY STREET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)
Holonyms ("Harley Street" is a part of...):
British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)
Context examples:
But Charlotte, she would not be satisfied, so Mr. Donavan was sent for; and luckily he happened to just come in from Harley Street, so he stepped over directly, and as soon as ever Mama, he said just as we did, that it was nothing in the world but the red gum, and then Charlotte was easy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied, Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Poor Edward! But now there is one good thing, we shall be able to meet, and meet pretty often, for Lady Middleton's delighted with Mrs. Dashwood, so we shall be a good deal in Harley Street, I dare say, and Edward spends half his time with his sister—besides, Lady Middleton and Mrs. Ferrars will visit now;—and Mrs. Ferrars and your sister were both so good to say more than once, they should always be glad to see me.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still farther by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It so happened that while her two sisters with Mrs. Jennings were first calling on her in Harley Street, another of her acquaintance had dropt in—a circumstance in itself not apparently likely to produce evil to her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In the present instance, this last-arrived lady allowed her fancy to so far outrun truth and probability, that on merely hearing the name of the Miss Dashwoods, and understanding them to be Mr. Dashwood's sisters, she immediately concluded them to be staying in Harley Street; and this misconstruction produced within a day or two afterwards, cards of invitation for them as well as for their brother and sister, to a small musical party at her house.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He and I had a great deal of talk about it; and the best of all is, that he is gone back again to Harley Street, that he may be within call when Mrs. Ferrars is told of it, for she was sent for as soon as ever my cousins left the house, for your sister was sure SHE would be in hysterics too; and so she may, for what I care.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Fanny, rejoicing in her escape, and proud of the ready wit that had procured it, wrote the next morning to Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving anything, they determined to give them—a dinner; and soon after their acquaintance began, invited them to dine in Harley Street, where they had taken a very good house for three months.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
