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Venus’ Miscellany choose

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[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: [of sexual intercourse] She allowed me to take many liberties [but] she had always repelled my endeavours to carry the war into Africa.
at carry the war into Africa (v.) under Africa, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: I don’t see why he should not just as well take his ass out of a hole.
at ass, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: [She] covered her face [...] but left the other parts bare [...] The damsel [...] lisped [...] ‘Men know fathes, but they don’t know othes!’ [sic].
at ass, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: I assure you, I liked the game of ‘leap frog’ much [...] Yours, Kitty Playcock.
at play (at)..., v.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Here is to the hoary-headed hermit, who never enters his mossy cell without dropping a tear.
at bald-headed hermit (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Mellow with blue ruin.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: We are rather short as regards toast makers, having none but Bridget, and she burns and spoils more than she makes.
at bridget, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: Suction split, a deep ravine near Cream Lake in the Kingdom of Easy Belly, a warm country in Eth-i-o-pia.
at cream, n.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: Suction split, a deep ravine near Cream Lake in the Kingdom of Easy Belly, a warm country in Eth-i-o-pia.
at cunt, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: I saw a copy of your merry love paper, in which [...] Kate told how her cousin Bob did it to her; and I want to tell you how cousin Bob fixed me.
at do it, v.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: Suction split, a deep ravine near Cream Lake in the Kingdom of Easy Belly, a warm country in Eth-i-o-pia.
at easy, adj.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: I saw a copy of your merry love paper, in which [...] Kate told how her cousin Bob did it to her; amd I want to tell you how cousin Bob fixed me.
at fix, v.2
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: ‘And what do you do with so many [wives]?’ ‘Oh [...] I f— ’em all, f— ’em all!’.
at fuck, v.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: ‘I should think your wife would be putting it to you for dancing so much.’ ‘Well she might, replied the old gent, ‘for I have been puttng it to her this forty years’ .
at put it to (v.) under it, n.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: A Standing Joke. [...] ‘My pretty girl [...] if you get in here [i.e. a crowded coach] you will have to take it standing, it is the only way’.
at take it, v.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: The you know what, with its vermillion lips, and downy substance around the mouth.
at you know what, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Mr Lushington Camac, joking with his maid-servant [...] ‘Thy mistress, Mrs Lushy’ [etc].
at lushy, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: A curious looking machine long, straight, and ruby coloured [ibid.] 23 May/ n.p.: I soon got out my infernal machine, which was soon trying to force a passage.
at machine, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: [I] quickly entered the charming moss-grown cave.
at moss, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: The mossy tuft tho’ thick it grew / Could not conceal the glowing hue, / Of rich vermillion.
at mossy bank (n.) under mossy, adj.2
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Here is to the hoary-headed hermit, who never enters his mossy cell without dropping a tear.
at mossy cell (n.) under mossy, adj.2
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: My pants all open in front and my ‘sensitive plaything’ exposed.
at sensitive plant, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: An old toggery collector, resident in a respectable sky parlor [in] Rosemary Lane.
at sky-parlour (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: ‘Well, Mary, I think Susan’s [legs] rather large and your [sic] rather small. I should prefer something between them both’.
at something, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: ‘None o’ that, ye dirty spalpeen’.
at spalpeen, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: Suction split, a deep ravine near Cream Lake in the Kingdom of Easy Belly, a warm country in Eth-i-o-pia.
at split, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: I feel the noble staff of love sink deep into her moistened temple.
at staff of love (n.) under staff, n.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: ‘I knew Brother Jones when he had his stines and [...] now Brother Jones is an altered man’.
at stone, n.1
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: ‘Still harping on my daughters,’ as an old woman said to a young man she caught talking vigorously to Annie in her chamber.
at talk, v.
[US] Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Here is to the hoary-headed hermit, who never enters his mossy cell without dropping a tear.
at tears, n.2
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