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  • She had a heart as big as Waterloo Station.

    -James Agate
    Of Marie Lloyd.  Attributed.

  •    A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cle 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?' Wa-ter-loo House young man!

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
    Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

  • I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
       The Major-General's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

  • That world-earthquake,Waterloo!

    -Tennyson
      'Ode on the Deathof the Duke ofWellington', stanza 6, l.133.

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