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Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/2: Why [...] he should have been such an ass in his old age as to let his spe culations [...] be carried so far as to cause the shutting up of his sham-Abraham-bank.at sham-Abraham, adj.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/2: Why [...] he should have been such an ass in his old age as to let his spe culations [...] be carried so far as to cause the shutting up of his sham-Abraham-bank. Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/4: [W]ho should have the brass to make her appearance but Mother Ward, of No. 62, Castle-street, Leicester-square-the keeper of that pestilential bawdy house.at brass, n.1
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 180/2: We know all about his racing establishment at Stockwell [...] and how he buffed it before the late committee.at buff, v.1
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/1: [T]hose humane and generous feelings (peculiar to the office of Bum-trap).at bum trap (n.) under bum, n.2
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/1: [S]upporting the respectability of one of the thousand families of the Abrahams, and practically improving the cent-per-cent tenets of the tribe.at cent per cent, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/3: This man cooked up a love diary of George the Fourth’s tricks with the Marchioness of Conyngham.at cook up, v.
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/8: We shall be furnished next week with the particulars of the Cornhill Crack, when Williams lost all his swag, although pro- tected by Chubb's patent locks, which to the finished crackman are as much use[...] than if the premises were fastened by a piece of twine.at crack, n.4
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/2: Why—Sewell, the livery stable keeper, 'don't toss his wife in a blanket,' when she takes too much of the ‘Cratur?’.at creature, the, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/4: [headline] Championship of England Disputed / And a Downer for Deaf Burke.at down, v.3
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/7: When a man has no dust [...] the leeches that used to suck him daily, turned him up and left him to shift for himself.at dust, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 183/2: Vates is not wanting in tricks and tacts [...] with a little jockeying, a little hocussing, two or three pounds over weight, a little ear-wigging [...] the Leger, could be contrived and made safe.at earwigging, n.
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/8: Mr. Waller rose from the table [...] minus 63l. He has since been informed [...] that he had been robbed by the firm introducing loaded dice, by which it was actually impossible he could win.at firm, n.
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/3: Some flats were found who posted the ready for
him to fight the Poy Barney Aaron, perhaps
under a belief that the Jew would make it
right.at flat, n.2
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 181/3: I hope some day or the other, instead of your being in the custody of hemp, you may end your exploits by a hempen substitute.at hempen substitute (n.) under hempen, adj.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 180/2: Butler, of the Bricklayers’ Arms be a hog and does not give good plain suppers for a small price.at hog, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 180/2: Theobald might have jockied the Jockey–club, but he will not us.at jockey, v.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/4: [S]he took a house, the York, at that time, being full of ladies of pleasure, did I say?—no! but ladies of sorrow!at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 180/3: This hell–fire devil has been heard to say that he means to lag old Hague, in order that he may raise quarterly subsidies from the gambling houses for himself.at lag, v.2
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/7: This fellow, we sup- pose, thinks he acts like an Englishman, and ‘damns all mounseers’ by behaving ill to foreigners.at mounseer, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/2: Sam took good care to keep them at his house till
they had spent their money and mortgaged their
farms; which but few- ever got back; this got
him the name of Terry the nail.at nail, n.1
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 183/3: [H]e generally waits on a debt for a palmer [...] and then gets his poor tool, George, to tuck him up the next day under ‘orders from the plaintiff’.at palmer, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/1: [T]he Jew thimble-rig
solicitor, Joseph Abrahams.at thimble-rig, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 183/2: [O]ne and all, the sporting world in particular, are subject to a little bit of legerdemain, and have the thimble rig played off on them to perfection, year after year by this precious Vates [a tipster].at thimble-rig, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/4: A poor person having to pledge a mahogany table for five shillings, (quarter of its value) at this scamp’s [pawnbroker’s] shop, went [...] to pay the interest.at scamp, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/4: [H]e went [...] to take it[i.e. a watch] out when his scamping pawnbroker demanded four shillinks [sic] and three halfpence.at scamp, v.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 183/3: [H]e is not particular whether he puts the screw on friend or foe.at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/2: [T]hat extensive practitioner and sea solicitor, yclept the shark.at shark, n.
Paul Pry 20 Sept. 178/4: ITSEY JOSEPH—a flash publican [...] and formerly an old smasher, was [...] tried with a man named David Mendez, for selling and uttering base coin .at smasher, n.1
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 183/3: [H]e is [...] a poor stick without any of Ben’s cunning.at stick, n.
Paul Pry 30 Sept. 182/1: Unfortunately they drank together, and the victim being a little top-heavy [etc].at top-heavy (adj.) under top, n.
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