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[UK] R. Forbes Red Horizon 174: ‘[W]hat a crash you’d be in my Long Island home. Why, who’d wanna listen to the radio once you started talking’.
at crash, n.1
[UK] R. Forbes Red Horizon 205: [A] man was on the point of wringing the birds’ necks when we stayed him. [...] The reprieved bird seemed to understand, for he ran around me, creating at the top of his voice.
at create, v.
[UK] R. Forbes Red Horizon 205: I had been an unmentionable fool, but through some stroke of good fortune I had come through .
at unmentionable, adj.
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