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Correct List of the Sporting Ladies Who are just arriv’d at these Races choose

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[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Mother Ash---h [...] has a noble stud of young cattle [who] give great satisfaction to all who ride well.
at cattle, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Mrs E.M. assures [her friends] that she is thoroughly clean and may be met with [...] price for a flying stroke, 6d. all night 2s.
at clean, adj.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] All the natural and acquired accomplishments requisite to complete their characters as Ladies of easy virtue.
at easy, adj.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] You sportsmen, who are free and willing / To feel, you’re welcome for a shilling.
at feel, v.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] She has lately been in the pickling tub, but now is as sound as a trout.
at sound as a trout (adj.) under fit, adj.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Her stay will be but short here, as she is under an engagement to one of the principal houses in Bridge-street, Covent-Garden.
at house, n.1
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] So juicy, so fresh, so tight, so gay [...] they [i.e. a group of prostitutes] cannot be equalled.
at juicy, adj.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] If looking on shou’d you surprize, / And cause your Penis for to rise, / A bargain strike, and we’ll agree / To lay the same immediately.
at lay, v.1
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Mother Ash---h [...] has a noble stud of young cattle [who] give great satisfaction to all who ride well, particularly if tackle be stour, and sit well.
at mother, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] A delicious, beautiful young lady [...] and will never do any business in the needle-way till it is dark.
at needle, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Two of her [i.e. a prostitute’s] Stallions having lately had the Misfortune to lose their Lives, by having their Collars too tight to the Paddington nevergreen Tree .
at Paddington nevergreen tree (n.) under Paddington, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] She has lately been in the pickling tub, but now is as sound as a trout.
at powdering tub, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] She is extremely well rigged from head to Stern, being lately in keeping by Ned Neptune, a jolly Tar.
at rig, v.1
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] You sportsmen, who are free and willing / To feel, you’re welcome for a shilling.
at sportsman, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Miss Al---ck, a beautiful young lady, full of spunk, and very supple in her joints.
at spunk, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Two of her [i.e. a prostitute’s] Stallions having lately had the Misfortune to lose their Lives, by having their Collars too tight to the Paddington nevergreen Tree .
at stallion, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] She has, at a very considerable expence, procured a stud of fillies, endued with all the natural and acquired accomplishments to complete their characters as Ladies of easy virtue.
at stud, n.
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] Mother Ash---h [...] has a noble stud of young cattle [who] give great satisfaction to all who ride well, particularly if tackle be stour, and sit well.
at tackle, n.1
[UK] Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] diana trapes, in Pease-porrage lane [...] will not be on the Course this Year [...] Please to enquire for Miss Tickleback.
at trapes, n.
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