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Stray Leaves 183: There he was, ‘dead as herrings that are red’.at dead as..., adj.
Stray Leaves 183: There he was, ‘dead as herrings that are red’. Stray Leaves 19: Some wore a wide-awake, others a sort of pudding shape, quilted with cotton [...] and others, again, a sort of turban twisted round a common hat .at wide-awake, n.
Stray Leaves 19: We all wore ‘shocking had hats,’ 1 but none the less comfortable.at bad hat, n.
Stray Leaves 2: I am not a bachelor, but a
happy benedict with six children.at benedict, n.
Stray Leaves 12: After dinner, one of the ‘boys,’ who had taken wine enough to make him sleepy [...] lay down to take a nap.at boys, the, n.
Stray Leaves : After such an engagement it is usual for the lovers to drive out together, or to be carted [...] when all the world understunds that the affair is settled.at cart, v.
Stray Leaves 141: This [comment] put the man's monkey up, and away he went.at get someone’s monkey up (v.) under monkey, n.
Stray Leaves 234: A pretty stiff allowance, certainly!—but the words are a libel on Mynheer. For my part, 1 think the Dutch a fine set of fellows.at mynheer, n.
Stray Leaves 178: After some palaver, the commander of the craft got into my boat.at palaver, n.
Stray Leaves 38: The natives [...] reported to my friend [...] that I was ‘paugul ho guya’ — literally ‘gone foolish’ or mad.at poggle, adj.
Stray Leaves 182: l determined to build it ‘[i.e. a house] puckha,’ that is to say, on columns nf masonry. with a flat roof of the same.at pukka, adv.
Stray Leaves 252: The time may and probably will, come, my dear Miss Saucebox [...] when you will agree with me.at saucebox, n.
Stray Leaves 141: How I did grumble and growl [...] ‘I’ll be shot if you ever catch me here again’.at I’ll be shot (if) under shoot, v.
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