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Keepers of the Desert 1931: ‘Give me fifty francs and I will square the Orderly Room Corporal. Then the trick is turned’.at turn a trick, v.2
Keepers of the Desert 1931: ‘Give me fifty francs and I will square the Orderly Room Corporal. Then the trick is turned’. Keepers of the Desert 209: [Y]ou know what a song and a dance there would be if the beans were spilt too soon.at song and dance, n.1
Keepers of the Desert 231: ‘Stinking little yellow-bellies’, as he was polite enough to term the entire Japanese nation.at yellow belly, n.
Keepers of the Desert 215: [I]t will give us a pretext for combing out that district and putting the fear of Allah into them.at comb out, v.
Keepers of the Desert 173: Business was good but shipping [...] was beginning to feel the breeze and the more far-seeing underwriters at Lloyds were beginning to talk doubtfully of the future.at feel a draught (v.) under feel, v.
Keepers of the Desert 178: What a change again from the last time I travelled to Marseilles. Then I rode ‘hard’ in a train-omnibus. Now I lolled in luxury on soft cushions.at hard, adv.
Keepers of the Desert 115: [B]earing in his hands a bottle of Lanson. ‘With the compliments of Captain de Corton,’ he said, ‘to wet the new ribbon of the English Sergeant’s Medaille Militaire!’.at wet, v.
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