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Mammon in London 1 191: [B]attered beaux, adonised, and patched up for the evening.at adonize, v.
Mammon in London 1 191: [B]attered beaux, adonised, and patched up for the evening. Mammon in London 1 62: An old lady fall down in a fit after swallowing a bumper of thunder and lightning.at thunder and lightning, n.
Mammon in London 1 94: I was seldom out-talked in company, except by a professional ‘Bagman’.at bagman, n.
Mammon in London 1 225: [B]akers’ legs [...] such as, from the knee downwards, resemble nothing so much as a pair of outstretched compasses.at baker-kneed, adj.
Mammon in London 1 58: [I] hired myself as barker to a mock auction [...] a barker, sir, stands at the door of the shop and inveigles the passengers in, by cries of ‘Walk in, gentlemen, the sale’s going to begin; splendid assortment of glass and jewellery [...] to be positively given away’.at barker, n.1
Mammon in London 1 73: The captain assured me that they were the best bits of blood he ever saw.at bit of blood (n.) under bit, n.1
Mammon in London 1 262: He observed [...] that it was a sad raw morning, and proposed a glass of blue ruin, or br-a-a-andy, as he called it.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Mammon in London 1 85: One of those nasal execrescences which vulgar naturalists describe [as] bottle-nose [...] being extremely rubicund.at bottle-nose, n.
Mammon in London 1 262: Flutter [...] complained of the cold, and made a sad rattling of his ‘bread graters’ as we got out of our rattler.at bread-grater (n.) under bread, n.1
Mammon in London 1 331: You’d think [...] that the summum bonum of existence was [...] a eunuch’s voice [...] what turgid bulletins if the capon happens to be hoarse.at capon, n.
Mammon in London 1 185: ‘So much for the Colonel’s taste in making us leave Champagne and Claret, for Camporese and cat-gut scrapers’.at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
Mammon in London 1 338: [W]ithout waiting to see if Verax and Ferret were on the dicky or the box.at dicky, n.3
Mammon in London 1 307: As my profits were not always certain I often had the pleasure of supping with Duke Humphrey.at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
Mammon in London 1 300: A novel comes out [...] the various partners of the concern duff it into notice by fraudulent criticisms [...] and the gulled public pays.at duff, v.1
Mammon in London 1 66: ‘Would you mind [...] undertaking a flying leap through the window?’].at take a flying fuck (v.) under flying fuck, n.
Mammon in London 1 225: [H]e then waddled away, as well as his eccentric pedestals would let him.at pedestal, n.
Mammon in London 1 314: You’ll see wives and their sisters pigging together with the same man [...] and lightning each other to the same bed.at pig, v.1
Mammon in London 1 326: Choose the discreet widow, whom the dotard C— left nine plums, at the expense of his family.at plum, n.2
Mammon in London 1 69: [They] had tipped their creditors the bag, and absconded.at give someone the sack (v.) under sack, n.
Mammon in London 1 195: [as cite 1753].at smell a post (v.) under smell, v.
Mammon in London 1 85: A little wee man, with shanks of the spindle order.at spindleshanks, n.
Mammon in London 1 76: I saw many an old dowager taste [liqueurs] till their natural bloom was seen through their rouge. [...] ‘Look at those old Tabbies; depend on it they come here to tipple’.at tabby, n.
Mammon in London 1 271: ‘A bit of cabbage, of you please, Mr Thingumme’.at thingummy, n.
Mammon in London 1 224: My charming Anne was a trimmer — a limb of the devil — and had already made the house too hot to hold me.at trimmer, n.1
Mammon in London 1 309: [H]e had just got white-washed and [...] did not care a straw for a creditor’s black looks.at whitewash, v.
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