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Great news from hell; or, The devil foil’d by Bess Weatherby choose

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[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 14: O, ’sblood and Ownds, says one of the, you are not at W-th-rby’s now.
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 23: Have I not sent to you Time after Time, when I have been bummed, and never could make you pay a Debt of above two Guineas or so.
at bum, v.1
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 15: I know the Country as well as yourselves, Joys.
at dear joy, n.
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 14: Three Irish Fortune-hunters, who [...] used to cut no small Flash about the Garden.
at flash, n.1
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 42: Hold your Jaw, replied I, you Fool, make none of your Resolutions.
at hold one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 13: Then came a Group of Bucks and Jemmies, who all claimed Acquaintance with me.
at jemmy, n.2
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 15: I knew you in Ireland, when you was glad to pig with a Carr-boy for a Cut of Bread and a Drink of Beer.
at pig, v.1
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 14: I began my old Rig, and gave them such a Paterero as brought the Devil himself to the Gate.
at rig, n.2
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 22: Vere be de Lotterie Dickets and de Pank Notes, dat you hafe of me [...] ?’ Poor Shylock, says I, What cannot you forgive me yet? [...] ‘Out you Pische,says he, you tam’t Pische!’.
at shylock, n.
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 42: Tip me another Stomacher, says she [...] she then tossed off a full Gill of Coniac.
at stomacher (n.) under stomach, n.
[UK] B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 43: Her protuberant Udders, which were blown up to the best Advantage [...] looked like two Bladders-full of Scotch Snuff.
at udders, n.
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