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Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies [was] an annual publication that made “frequent use of nautical expressions in describing the physical accomplishments of some of the [prostitutes],” among them Miss Devonshire of Queen Anne Street; this being a family newspaper, we cannot quote Harris’s delicious account of Miss Devonshire’s amatory skills. (Jonathan Yardley, “Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women,” Washington Post, 3/4/2001.)