In the days of which I now speak, steam packets were not -men knew not then, of the pleasure of going to a comfortable bed in kingstown harbour, and waking on the morning after in the Clarence dock at Liverpool, with only the addition of a little sharper appetite for breakfast, before they set out on an excursion of forty miles per hour through the air.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
She liked kingstown-she liked short whist-she liked the military-she liked "the junior bar," of which she knew a good number-she had a well furnished house in Kildare-street-and a well cushioned pew in St. Anne's-she was a favourite at the castle-and Dr. Labatt "knew her constitution."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
In the rebellion he had held Boland's bakery, a large building covering the approaches to Dublin from kingstown by rail; he had been the last of the leaders to surrender, and had earned high opinions by his conduct in these operations.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn