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the City

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Noun1.the City - the part of London situated within the ancient boundariesthe City - the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London
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
2.the City - used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain
securities industry, market - the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"


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Spit on the city of compressed souls and slender breasts, of pointed eyes and sticky fingers--
Smooth-it-away--who, though he had never actually visited the Celestial City, yet seemed as well acquainted with its laws, customs, policy, and statistics, as with those of the City of Destruction, of which he was a native townsman.
Up this road from the precincts of the city two persons were walking rapidly, as if unconscious of the trying ascent--unconscious through preoccupation and not through buoyancy.
 
 
 
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