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The True Colonist : Van Diemen’s Land political despatch, and agricultural and commercial advertiser choose

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[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/3: ‘I can give a very capital blow out, and you have good cause to recollect the last claret you drank at my home’.
at blow-out, n.1
[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/3: ‘[A]pt, I think, to produce flatulence, and hypochondriasis — which by the way, is a Greek compound, signifying “Blue Devils”’.
at blue devils, n.
[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/3: ‘We played that well, did’nt we? [...] And I think [...] we ought to have a bumper on the strength of it’.
at bumper, n.2
[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 18 Jan. 585/3: ‘I have every reason to be grateful to my patron for the many good things he has given me, and for the opportunities he has afforded me of stitching up so many poor devils’.
at stitch up, v.
[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/2: ‘I thought we could stitch you,’ said the little winner [...] (shaking the sovereigns in his purse).
at stitch, v.
[Aus] True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/3: ‘I’ll enlighten you a point or two, and give you another wrinkle’.
at wrinkle, n.
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