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Tiger of the Legion 35: ‘But, shure, there’s a merry little twinkle in the eye of ye that should get a bite and a copper out of most folk!’ .at bite, n.1
Tiger of the Legion 35: ‘But, shure, there’s a merry little twinkle in the eye of ye that should get a bite and a copper out of most folk!’ . Tiger of the Legion 4: If another kid as much as clenched his fist at me, I’d run like a rabbit—and so I would if a cow or goose looked at me cross-eyed.at look at someone cross-eyed (v.) under cross-eyed, adv.
Tiger of the Legion 12: When at last I did cry, it was in anger, because of the stinging little dabs he gave me .at dab, n.2
Tiger of the Legion 22: Hard, bony little fists [...] played the very devil’s tattoo on my ribs .at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
Tiger of the Legion v: At fifty-two Mr. O’Reilly looks easily seventy-five.at easily, adv.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 86: ‘How’re ye heeled, Tiger?’ I dived into my pocket, and produced my total wealth—two notes and some nickel.at heeled, adj.
Tiger of the Legion 29: I looked across at where my mother had been lying. She had gone [...] ‘Herself is all right!’ [my father] reassured me .at her, n.
Tiger of the Legion 112: I myself did not get much of an overhauling [...] But some of the others were put right through the hoop.at go through the hoop (v.) under hoop, n.1
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 52: [A] little crowd of admiring small boys followed me all the time. I fancy some of them must have ‘hopped the twig’ from school .at hop the twig, v.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 83: [I] got deported back to England [...] It wasn’t long before I found trouble this side, too, and made the intimate acquaintance of His Majesty’s hotels.at hotel, n.
Tiger of the Legion 86: ‘Forty-two francs—and the exchange at about seventy-six to the British jimmy-o’-goblin!at Jimmy O’Goblin, n.
Tiger of the Legion 12: [W]hen I looked, my ‘boxing-glove’ had blood on it! I started to blubber like ten kids.at like ten, adv.
Tiger of the Legion 92: ‘Say, Tiger, don’t you go, neither! [...] Don’t leave your old mate on his lone in this rotten hole!’.at on one’s lonely under lonely, adj.
Tiger of the Legion 11: [H]e constructed a set of home-made boxing gloves [...] something like the ‘mufflers’ the old-time pugs used to use.at muffler, n.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 44: He [i.e. a lion] had grown old in the show-business, and he knew his oats down to the very last ear .at know one's oats (v.) under oats, n.2
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 67: ‘Bit o’ fun for you, maybe—but I reckon the boss’ll pack me up over it! We ain’t bin on good terms lately, anyway!’ .at pack up (v.) under pack, v.1
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 44: [D]oing acrobatics on the ambling old pad-horse wasn’t exciting enough for me! at pad, n.1
Tiger of the Legion 22: I went for him, fists up and head down [...] A prop under the jaw put it up for me again .at prop, n.2
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 83: [of England] [I] got deported back to England [...] It wasn’t long before I found trouble this side, too, and made the intimate acquaintance of His Majesty’s hotels.at side, n.
Tiger of the Legion 112: I am [...] used to ‘sleeping rough", but that was just a trifle too rough, and my sleep was of the sketchy variety.at sketchy, adj.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 81: [A]t New York, as I had planned, I ‘slipped my cable’, and started a new life in the United States .at slip one’s cable (v.) under slip, v.2
Tiger of the Legion 89: Now ‘soldier"—pronounced ‘sodger’ by this gentleman—is a term of great opprobrium when applied to a seaman, and it caused the last of my temper and discretion to go.at soldier, n.
Tiger of the Legion 88: [of a woman] She was a real sport, that little woman.at sport, n.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 68: [T]hey weren’t much, these yokels [...] with very little boxing technique [...] I caught a tarter about three times altogether, and took a good licking .at catch a tartar (v.) under tartar, n.
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 62: ‘Well, well! The principal bout of the evening, eh? Two-pennorth of Ha’pence, versus Champion Brown! You’d better go home to your mother, Tommy!’ .at tommy, n.5
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 69: I decided I would tramp to Southampton .at tramp, v.1
(con. 1895) Tiger of the Legion 62: ‘Well, well! The principal bout of the evening, eh? Two-pennorth of Ha’pence, versus Champion Brown! You’d better go home to your mother, Tommy!’ .at twopennorth, n.
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