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Adventure in Algeria choose

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[Scot] B. Stuart Adventure in Algeria 49: The ‘disengaged’ ladies kept together at one corner of the bar, and one had to go to the Mother Abbess to pay one’s money before taking one’s choice.
at abbess, n.
[Scot] B. Stuart Adventure in Algeria 24: [A] blonde super-bombshell who had been eyeing me with neither success nor encouragement.
at bombshell, n.
[Scot] B. Stuart Adventure in Algeria 67: I went into town suffering from a bad attack of cafard, which in the Legion means an acute degree of fed-upness.
at fed-upness under fed up, adj.
[Scot] B. Stuart Adventure in Algeria 72: [in the French Foreign Legion] [A]s he had not had a crime on his ‘sheet’ for about ten years he was let off with a caution.
at sheet, n.
[Scot] B. Stuart Adventure in Algeria 258: I have never seen two kids whack into a meal with greater relish.
at whack into (v.) under whack, v.1
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