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A Modern Legionary choose

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[Ire] Le Poer A Modern Legionary 35: [I]f a general quarrel took place, we were to remember our duty to the Legion and make it ‘warm weather’ for our opponents.
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[Ire] Le Poer A Modern Legionary 23: [A]t any moment thirty or more men may be, to use an expressive phrase, ‘into’ one another with [...] anything lying handy that will do a man damage.
at into, prep.1
[Ire] Le Poer A Modern Legionary 175: I said; ‘perhaps monsieur the sergent-majeur would wet the promotion in the evening’.
at wet, v.
[Ire] Le Poer A Modern Legionary 26: [T]he Spaniard [...] he had to be satisfied with half-a-dozen puffs from every pipe in the room. [...] At the same time I too have had to do with the whiffs when I longed for a pipeful of my own .
at whiff, n.
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