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Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 23 June 2/1: Judged by this standard, the North-West Provinces and Oudh must undoubtedly accept the invidious title of ‘the benighted’.at Benighted, the, n.
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 23 June 2/1: Judged by this standard, the North-West Provinces and Oudh must undoubtedly accept the invidious title of ‘the benighted’. Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 19 Aug. 3/3: [I]n washing this khaki, only soda should be used, and not the mixture called sujji by dhobies.at dhobi, n.
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 4 Jan. 3/4: A Madrasee would a!ways discriminate between a Bengal and a Bombay brother-in arms, by observing his horse and his tent, the Qui-hye being the better-mounted man, and the duck the better housed.at duck, n.3
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 19 June 1/3: Girofle, while being trained last year [...] developed a most violent temper, and came to be universally regarded as a ‘man-eater’.at man-eater, n.
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 19 Sept. 6/2: It will not satisfy them to have another retired Colonial prelate promoted to Bishop Claughton’s vacant place, for they abhor what they irreverently call ‘returned empties’.at returned empty, n.
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 21 June 3/3: [T]hey convey a meaning patent to any griffin who has been ia the country twenty minutes.at griffin, n.1
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 1 Jan. 3/4: [O]nly a very few Mofussilites have as yet put in an appearance.at Mofussilite (n.) under Mofussil, n.
Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 21 Mar. 2/3: [A]n Akhali [...] mounted on the seediest of country leafs, gravely ‘peacocked’ up the whole length of the mounted files.at peacock, v.
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 112: ‘Who’s going to die?’ ‘I am, please the pigs, if it gets much hotter’.at an’t please the pigs, phr.
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 112: ‘How the deuce d'you expect a man to improve his mind when you two are bukking about drinks?’.at buck, v.3
‘“Sleipner, ”late “Thurinda”’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 12 May (1909) 135: ‘When a man bukhs too much about his wife or his horse, it’s a sure sign he‘s trying to make himself like ’em’.at buck, v.3
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 114: ‘[T]he more he thought about it, the better sort of bundobust it seemed to be’.at bundabust, n.
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 112: ‘Hi, bearer, do burra — burra whiskey-peg lao ’.at burra peg (n.) under burra, adj.
‘Supplementary Chapter’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 19 May (1909) 163: ‘Look at the cunning of the brute in shifting the issue on to India in that carneying, blarneying way!’.at carney, v.
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 109: ‘An’ now choop, an’ lie still’.at choop, v.
‘Last of the Stories’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 15 Sept. (1909) 305: ‘Let the galoot go’.at galoot, n.
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 105: ‘I think nothing [...] He didn’t go at me. He’s your property’.at go, v.
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 103: I give 'im a latherin' at Deelally all for to keep ’im straight,’e bein’ such as wants a latherin’.at lather, n.2
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 107: ‘[S]o long as ’e’s drunk, ’e’s mad — a looney’.at loony, n.
‘“Sleipner,” late “Thurinda”’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 12 May (1909) 135: ‘Come and peacock at the band-stand this evening’.at peacock, v.
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 104: ‘Stick to your bloomin’ pop-guns [...] an’ don’t talk to a better man than you’.at popgun, n.
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 111: ‘Here I’ve taken the trouble to come over after dinner.’ ‘On the off-chance of skinning some one’.at skin, v.1
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 105: ‘I tell you, sir, an’ I am not smokin’ [swaggering], as you see — I could take that man’.at smoke, v.1
‘The Likes O’ Us’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 4 Feb. (1909) 101: Look a-here, you young snitcher.at snitcher, n.2
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 122: ‘I was in a stew lest the man should cut his throat with one of the breakfast knives’.at stew, n.1
‘“Sleipner,” late “Thurdina”’ in Civil & Military Gaz. (1909) 145: ‘It only killed poor Marish and made you stick me with the mare’.at stick someone for (v.) under stick, v.
‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 7 Apr. (1909) 126: ‘And, as truly as I’m yarning here, there was a huge brindled beast of a pariah sitting on my bed!’ ‘Tall, sir, tall. But go on. The audience is now awake’.at tall, adj.
‘“Sleipner,” late “Thurdina”’ in Civil & Military Gaz. (1909) 140: ‘Anybody lost a tat?’ asked Marish cheerily.at tat, n.5
‘New Dispensation I’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 10 Dec. (1909) 285: There is a fine-crusted, slave-holding instinct in the hearts of a good many deep-bosomed matrons — a ‘throw back’ to the times when we trafficked in black ivory.at black ivory (n.) under black, adj.
‘The Bow Flume Cable-Car’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 10 Sept.(1909) 189: ‘He put all our dollars into that blamed barroom.at blame, adj.
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