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Long Odds III 143: ‘Well, this beats me altogether’.at beat, v.
Long Odds III 143: ‘Well, this beats me altogether’. Long Odds I 38: Mrs B. is
always reminding me of that fact. She
blows me up about it.at blow up, v.1
Long Odds III 160: ‘[B]ounce Bramton into running his colt, by hinting that his girl will lose all the property if he don’t’.at bounce, v.1
Long Odds II 175: ‘I landed the biggest stake I ever won by bounce’.at bounce, n.1
Long Odds I 196: ‘We know all about the Heathen Chinee and the game “he did not understand”’.at Chinee, n.
Long Odds II 114: Ben Israel [...] played, metaphorically, with cogged dice at one and all of his many vocations.at cog, v.
Long Odds I 39: [He]enjoyed himself immensely, running into the city constantly to have a crack with his old friends.at crack, n.1
Long Odds I 172: [of a racehorse] ‘Mr Bramton, knowing nothing about racing, would probably feel flattered and grateful to a man like himself for taking the management of his ‘crack’ off his hands.at crack, n.1
Long Odds I 110: ‘I don’t suppose he ever knew a real lord before, and he's just simply death upon knowing one now’.at death on, adj.
Long Odds I 145: His lordship has tried to ‘do’ me, and, in my way, I'll just see if I can't ‘do’ his lordship.at do, v.1
Long Odds II 24: ‘We have given those fellows [i.e. Arab troops] a terrible dusting, but they take their punishment like men, and will have another shy at us’.at dusting, n.1
Long Odds III 203: It takes a good deal to stagger the aplomb
of a light dragoon, more especially when
dealing with fiunkydom.at flunkydom (n.) under flunky, n.2
Long Odds I 169: [I]t as quite a feather in his cap to be the owner of such a ‘flyer’ as Damocles.at flyer, n.3
Long Odds I 113: ‘It’s neck or nothing this time, old man. I’ve got every acre of Temple Rising on it. I’m going for the gloves, and intend to be a man or a mouse over thi’".at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
Long Odds II 56: ‘There is no man in England would make such a good thing of it if Damocles is first past the post at Epsom’.at good thing, n.
Long Odds III 52: ‘They're grit, they are, these swells, and no mistake,' murmured John Bramton [...] ‘a hundred thousand pounds out of his pocket, and yet he don't make so much fuss about it as I’ve seen a fellow make over a losing deal at penny Van John’.at grit, n.1
Long Odds I 16: ‘It’s no use,’ gasped the wounded man; ‘there’s nothing much to be done for me. I’ve got my gruel, and I know it’.at get one’s gruel (v.) under gruel, n.
Long Odds I 48: ‘I could fancy poor Dick perpetually wanting a lawyer to get him out of some hobble or other’.at hobble, n.
Long Odds II 46: ‘We’re in the hole, my boys’ [...] And then lamentations sadder than those of Jeremiah arose.at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
Long Odds II 234: ‘Such a shameless bit of ‘kidding’ would have ensured my being hooted off the course at Stockbridge or Croydon’.at kidding, n.
Long Odds II 167: The Earl not only had never stood to win so large a stake [...] but the landing of it had never before been of so dire a necessity.at land, v.
Long Odds I 110: ‘He further bid me tell you [...] that they did the thing [i.e. catering] tol-lolish at Temple Rising’.at tol-lollish, adv.
Long Odds II 53: ‘I ventured to tell him Lord Ranksborow had got most of the long shots about Damocles’.at long shot, n.1
Long Odds I 95: ‘One thousand pound! [...] I know they give long prices for ome of these racers, but a thousand pounds is a mint of money’.at long, adj.
Long Odds I 41: ‘[T]hese nobs have a way with them,' replied John Bramton [...] ‘They would know me on the bench, but not off it’.at nob, n.2
Long Odds III 164: ‘Sim Napper, what a thundering ass you've made of yourself! [...] I shall get the sack, and Uncle Noel a real nose-ender’.at nosender, n.
Long Odds II 3: ‘All right, old chappie. I’ll look up the old ’un’s last testament, never fear’.at old one, n.
Long Odds I 68: Dick Bramton has got wiped out in a gambling-house row at Cairo.at wipe out, v.
Long Odds II 59: Besides the solid pudding, Mr Stubber further coveted a share of the laurels of his profession [...] Let alone the money, it was hard to be denied the chance of leading the winner of the Derby in.at pudding, n.
Long Odds I 11: ‘There’s Bramton punting [...] like a man who means business’.at punt, v.1
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