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Holmes County Republican choose

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[US] Holmes Co. Repub. (OH) 12 Nov. 3/1: The Constitutional Convention is in a fair way to fizzle out.
at fizzle (out), v.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican 2 Sept. 3/2: Come, old codger, move to one side! [...] Go bag your head, and sober off!
at bag your head! (excl.) under bag, v.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican 7 Mar. 4/1: A. — ‘Going down [South] again this winter?’ B. — ‘Yes, if the d—d abolitionists don’t kick up such a bobbery that it won’t be pleasant’.
at kick up a bobbery (v.) under bobbery, n.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 7 Nov. n.p.: Big prices have been paid for old horses frames that would not make decent buzzard bait.
at buzzard bait (n.) under buzzard, n.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 18 Jan. 1/4: Old Levy Samuel Davis of Clothiers Alley, St Bartholomew’s, Smithfield [...] was as ‘downey a cove’ [...] as you could find in three kingdoms.
at downy cove (n.) under downy, adj.1
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/6: ‘Turn out there lads, for I’m blowed if we ain’t shut in’.
at turn out, v.1
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/5: ‘So I says to him, Scotty, you shal have charge of this expedition’.
at Scotchie, n.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/6: ‘Boys [...] this is a mighty poor show’.
at show, n.
[US] Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/6: The ‘swellest’ thing in the way of [...] wedding cards.
at swell, adj.
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