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[US] Western Police Gaz. 29 Mar. n.p.: [W]ith Mayor Mickle’s banner ‘Beware of Mock Auctions,’ he will press the war into Africa.
at carry the war into Africa (v.) under Africa, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: At a certain boarding house [...] a young lady (she disgraces the name) in company with one or two ‘Auction pimps’ [etc].
at boarding house, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: About 40 sporting gents were strung together with iron bracelets.
at bracelets, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: [I] will only [...] make a few enquiries in relation to the actions of several bucks and coddies [ibid.] When do you expect to renounce your apish manners and codfish mimickings.
at codfish, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: Other places were marked down as ‘no go’, illustrating the hard-heartedness of their inhabitants.
at no go, phr.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: You must have ben egregiously sorry for that old ‘Grass Widow’.
at grass widow, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: I kicked up a high dust. She was so inquistive as to look into my letters.
at kick up, v.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: Two celebrated ‘nymphs of the pave’.
at nymph of the pavé, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: Those boys who frequent that one-horse grocery [etc].
at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: Terrible Shaking Among the Gamblers [...] the snail shakers did not get wind of what was brewing until they found themselves in the hands of the police.
at snail shaker (n.) under snail, n.
[US] Western Police Gaz. (Cincinnati, OH) 29 Mar. n.p.: About 40 sporting gents were strung together with iron bracelets.
at sporting man (n.) under sporting, adj.
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