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Memoirs [...] of Sir Robert Keith Murray in Fife Herald 12 Apr. 1889 4/6: He won £3000! His good fortune then left him and [...] he cut at three o’clock in the morning, with £2,300.at cut, v.2
Memoirs [...] of Sir Robert Keith Murray in Fife Herald 12 Apr. 1889 4/6: He won £3000! His good fortune then left him and [...] he cut at three o’clock in the morning, with £2,300. Fife Herald 18 Mar. 4/1: He is like a man who attempts to finesse with a small card, when he has a sure winner in his hand [...] This tricky fantastic mode of prooceeding looks monstrously like playing booty with the enemy, and wishing to deceive his friends, the people.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
Fife Herald 24 Nov. 3/2: Although they were sorely temped to discharge their artillery, none of them ventured to burn powder.at burn powder (v.) under burn, v.
Fife Herald 8 Dec. 3/3: The temporary loss of the white hat of the knight of the awl.at ...the awl under knight of the..., n.
Fife Herald 26 Mar. 3/4: He was attacked [...] by the landlord of a hedge alehouse.at hedge-tavern (n.) under hedge, adj.
Fife Herald 29 June 16/1: Says Virgil, ‘’Tis done, and, as sure as a gun, we’ll lark it in capital style’.at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
Fife Herald 29 June 16/1: ‘Wha scunner and carp at the “pure”’.at scunner, v.
Fife Herald 29 June 16/1: So away to wet Tibur [...] The threesome went smackingly by.at smackingly (adv.) under smacking, adj.
Fife Herald 10 June 2/4: [in fig. use] The political roguery of bothb factions has long been notorious [...] The patriots, as well as their press, are playing booty.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
Fife Herald 15 July 3/2: He’ll get woundy thin, poor cretur.at woundy, adv.
Fife Herald 10 Jan. 2/4: But for his cowardice, there would have been occasion to pray that he might die ‘without his shoes’.at die in (one’s) shoes (v.) under shoe, n.
Fife Herald 19 Aug. 1/7: An impossible shepherd, in blue satin trunks, [and] a cauliflower wig.at cauliflower, n.2
Fife Herald 1 June 5/5: The history of Wallace or Douglas, or Ballads [...] purchases from the sltying stationer.at flying stationer (n.) under fly, v.
Fife Herald 15 Nov. 4/7: Oh! Cricky, Criminy! Ain’t I happy?at criminy!, excl.
Fife Herald 15 Mar. 2/6: He is further threatened with having his —brains blown out if he attempots to lower his arms (or fins).at fin, n.1
Fife Herald 15 Mar. 2/6: The two armed men who have been ‘planted’ to keep a good look out.at plant, v.1
Fife Herald 15 Mar. 2/6: The ruffian tells him to hold up his arms or he will have his ‘nob scuttled’.at scuttle someone’s nob (v.) under scuttle, v.
Fife Herald 15 Mar. 2/6: [headline] ‘Sticking up’ in Australia.at stick up, v.1
Fife Herald (Scot.) 5 Mar. 3/5: I like Simon Simple very well, although he’s not quite so simple as he seems.at simple simon, n.1
Fife Herald 21 Jan. 1/7: The young men were to be seen with bottles [...] and sometimes some of them were to be seen going home roaring ‘fou’.at roaring fou, adj.
Fife Herald 28 July 2/8: Brimstone and blue horrors, what ships there!at horrors, the, n.
Fife Herald (Scot.) 28 Apr. 2/5: There is danger of taking too much of a good thing — getting, in fact, what is vulgarly but expressively known as a sickener.at sickener, n.
Fife Herald 19 Jan. 3/7: After [...] some very characteristic disaplay of ‘chin-wag’ [they] were fined [...] for disorderly conduct.at chinwag, n.
Fife Herald 5 Apr. 4/5: Who will readily forget the strange scorn [...] scattered through that letter where he speaks of the prince with a ‘Marry come up, my dirty cousin’?at marry come up!, excl.
Fife Herald 5 Apr. 4/5: Who will readily forget the strange scorn [...] scattered through that letter where he speaks of the prince with a ‘Marry come up, my dirty cousin’?at my dirty cousin, phr.
Fife Herald 6 June 3/6: The latter were beaten by a long chalk.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Fife Herald (Scot.) 8 Dec. 2/5: A red face shall be a letter of recommendation; and so many grog-blossoms.at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Fife Herald 29 June 4/5: A young man [...] who was the very pink of neatness in all matters pertaining to dress.at pink, n.
Fife Herald 24 Nov. 3/6: The owner [...] kept watch on his cacklers and discovered that a fox was the depredator.at cackler, n.2
Fife Herald 27 Jan. 2/3: His [i.e. Burns] humour and his wit scorched into cinders whole hecatombs of hypocrites and knaves, and his name is one at which Holy Willies [...] ought to tremble.at holy Willie (n.) under holy, adj.
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