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Military Sketch-book I June c.100: The white [i.e. powdered, long-haired] heads which, like snow-balls, were melted away by the warmth of croppy inlfuence.at croppie, n.
Military Sketch-book I June c.100: The white [i.e. powdered, long-haired] heads which, like snow-balls, were melted away by the warmth of croppy inlfuence. Military Sketch-book I June c.207: The French might fairly exclaim with the frogs in the fable — ‘Ah! Monsieur Bull, what is sport to you is death to us’.at Frog, n.
Military Sketch-book I June c.100: This worthy officer had formed the greaest friendship with the jack-boot of the army [...] he stuck to his jacks and buckskins until the day of his death.at jack, n.7
Military Sketch-book I June c.207: The giving of the word [of command] from the ‘middy’.at middy, n.
Military Sketch-book I June c.207: These extraordinary fellows [i.e. British sailors] delighted in hunting the ‘Munseers’ as they termed the French.at mounseer, n.
Military Sketch-book I June c.207: ‘Here’s this bl—y Murphy stickin’ a sword into my stairn’.at stern, n.
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