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1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. iii. 34 King. Where is Polonius? Ham. In heauen, send thether to see, if your messenger finde him not th[e]re, seeke him i'th other place your selfe. View more context for this quotation

1706 H. Dodwell Epistolary Disc. p. xiii This weeping and gnashing of Teeth is opposed to the sitting down with Abraham, &c. in the Kingdom of Heaven... In the other place, the unquenchable Fire is denounc'd against those who obey not the truth.

1758 Crit. Rev. July 85 There, gentlemen, is a pretty simile for you about heaven; and as to the other place, unless..your infernal tempers are changed, you must dwell with devils for ever.

1829 J. Richardson Écarté I. i. 3 The whole secret of our existence will be reduced to the universal influence of steam: we shall live by steam—die by steam, and go to Heaven, or to the other place, by steam.

1841 F. A. Kemble Let. 29 Dec. in Rec. Later Life (1882) II. 156 I conclude that letters will occasionally come to heaven, and always be written in—the other place.

1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xi. 108 Washington was alternately in paradise or the other place just as it happened that Louise was gracious to him or seemingly indifferent.

1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. xx. 245 Shall I go to heaven for doing that?.. Or mayn't I rather go to the other place?

1920 ‘O. Douglas’ Penny Plain i. 13 I wouldn't much care to go to heaven myself, for all my friends are in..the Other Place.

1972 ‘M. Innes’ Open House xi. 101 There being neither youth or age, sir, in the 'eavenly mansions—no, nor in the other place either.

2004 M. E. Wittmer Heaven is Place on Earth i. 15 I don't want to go to heaven. Not that I'm lobbying for the other place—I want no part of everlasting fire and unbearable, unquenchable torment.

1818 Parl. Deb. XXXVII. 18 Feb. 507 Mr. Lyttelton trusted, that the House would not neglect any thing which it was their duty to do, from a consideration of what might be done in another place. He had, however, no doubt, that the humane and energetic arguments which his hon. friend had used in support of the measure, would also have their effect in the other place alluded to.]

1829 Mirror of Parl. (3rd Sess., 8th Parl.) 3 1777/2 With diligence the alterations may pass though this House in a fortnight or three weeks; while, in the other place, to which the rules of Parliament prevent my more particularly alluding, much of those obstacles are removed which retarded the former bill so long.

1907 Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 24 June 968 By this Resolution we are determined to bend the stubborn resistance of the other place to the will of the majority here, bend it once and for all.

1970 Guardian 22 Apr. 8/8 In the other place, it had been the rule to have sponsors since 1688 and Stormont had the same rules.

1973 Deb. Senate S. Afr. 17 May 2807 I am thinking..of the important task of industrial decentralization about which so much has been said in this House and in the Other Place.

1992 H. Robertson On Hill 83 Rather than refer to the other chamber by name,..they refer to it as ‘the other place’.

2006 Select Comm. BBC’s Charter Rev. 3rd Rep.: Final Discussions with Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport 1/1 in Parl. Papers 2005–6 (HL 196) Do you think that is right..that there should be a kind of ban on strategy advisers coming before select committees of this House and the other place?

1899 Oxf. Mag. 6 Dec. 131/1 His [sc. the editor's] congratulations to his contemporaries, both here and at ‘the other place’, for the success with which..they have provided, week after week, a steady supply of what one of our own poets has termed ‘the vespertinal rumour and the matutinal’.

1902 Oxf. Point of View June 69 We have monopolized it [sc. the Rhodes Bequest] to such good purpose, that out of very envy the Other Place has been forced to start a Kitchen Scandal.

1907 Cambr. Rev. 17 Jan. 161/1 The judge, being an Oxford man, unconsciously favoured the versifying ways of ‘the other place’.

1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress ix. 204 Sir Hosea Weaver..a Cambridge man..had..taken the highest kind of degree that the other place can give in Political Economy.

1958 Listener 14 Aug. 232/1 Cambridge has always tried to be more typical and less exotic than the other place.

1974 Oxf. Times 5 July 1/4 (heading) By punt to the other place.

2004 M. Jeschke Inklings iii. 44 Isn't he engaged to some brilliant bird he met at Cambridge?.. He's pining for his ladylove off at ‘the other place’.