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Fortnights Ramble through London 21: At last I began to think that I was bilked, and was [...] not a little chagrined.at bilk, v.
Fortnights Ramble through London 21: At last I began to think that I was bilked, and was [...] not a little chagrined. Fortnights Ramble through London 54: The poorest skimmed milk I ever drank in my mother’s dairy was far suprior to this cockney beferage, Indeed the milk in the country participtates not of the beautiful blue particular to this.at blue john (n.) under blue, adj.1
Fortnights Ramble through London 81: The house was infamous, and having been the scene of much wickedness, was deemed disorderly [...] He added, ‘is it not, think you, a burning shame, to suffer such a nuisance?’.at burning shame, n.
Fortnights Ramble through London 11: D—n your day-lights, stop the coach!at damn your daylights! (excl.) under daylights, n.
Fortnights Ramble through London 17: ‘You are not the first [...] whom the nimble-fingered gentry have done over’.at do over, v.
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 17: ‘You are not the first,’ cried Mr. Portfolio,— ‘whom the nimble-figured gentry have done over’.at do over, v.
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 39: The mob now were proposing to duck the two droppers in an adjoining pond in the Long-fields, but Jack swore he would prosecute them. [Ibid.] 42: I threw one of the five pieces on the table, which the money-dropper had recently given me.at gold-dropper, n.
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 36: We past through Little Dublin, in St. Giles’s, one of the dirtiest places which I had ever beheld.at Little Dublin, n.
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 20: The duffer cheats me — the money droppers defraud me of nine guineas.at duffer, n.1
Fortnights Ramble through London 52: [I] began to think she was one of the frail fair-ones whom I had observed in the streets.at frail, n.1
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 55: The productions of poor Grub-street authors.at Grub Street, adj.
Fortnights Ramble through London 61: They fare sumptuously [...] being well provided for by their town ladies.at lady about town (n.) under lady, n.
Fortnights Ramble through London 15: Old mother Cole, the methodistical procuress [Ibid.] 80: Dolly Dandle, Kitty Cunning, Molly Mischance, Dame Dismal and Mother Midnight apepar undressed, almost naked.at mother, n.
A Fortnight’s Ramble through London 25: I told him that I could advance no more than nine guineas for the present. [...] ‘Hand me the nine pieces,’ replied the man.at piece, n.
Fortnights Ramble through London 30: Mr Smirk, the auctioneer [...] could touch you up a lot. There was no resisting him. He would force you to bid whether you would or no.at touch up, v.1
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