1857 Holmes Co. Repub. (OH) 12 Nov. 3/1: The Constitutional Convention is in a fair way to fizzle out.at fizzle (out), v.
1858 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.
1861 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.
1861 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.
1872 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
1873 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
1873 Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/5: ‘So I says to him, Scotty, you shal have charge of this expedition’.at Scotchie, n.
1873 Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/6: The ‘swellest’ thing in the way of [...] wedding cards.at swell, adj.