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High Life in London 30 Dec. 4/4: Yes, we have witnessed sad scenes at Almacks’: yet not worse [...] than have immortalized the Holylands, and embalmed the memory of Alsatia.at Alsatia, n.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 4/4: Yes, we have witnessed sad scenes at Almacks’: yet not worse [...] than have immortalized the Holylands, and embalmed the memory of Alsatia. High Life in London 30 Dec. 3/2: [He] very naturally desired to know of Molly Walton what was the cause of the uproar, when she replied, in language that we blush to write, ‘Ax my eye’.at ask my...!, excl.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/1: [H]e had bought an, old coat for 2l, off Money Moses, who had bummed him for it.at bum, v.3
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/1: The writ of ca. sa. and the costs were very heavy.at ca-sa, n.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/1: The defendants [...] said it was a ‘plant’ on the part of Levy and Money Moses, to ‘draw’ them of 100l.at draw, v.1
High Life in London 30 Dec. 5/3: [E]ffecting insurance on a non-existlng treasure, was the old ‘ring-dropping’ system of M. Hurtado.at ring dropping, n.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/2: The house of a notorious ‘fence’ [where] the stolen property was discovered.at fence, n.1
John Bull q. in High Life in London 23 Dec. 5/2: These very heavy gentlemen, the Edinburgh reviewers, dreaming for the first time in their lives of bishoprics, and chancellorships.at heavy, adj.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 4/4: Yes, we have witnessed sad scenes at Almacks’: yet not worse [...] than have immortalized the Holylands, and embalmed the memory of Alsatia.at holy land, n.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/1: The defendants denied that they interfered in the affair at all, and said it was a ‘plant’ on the part of Levy and Money Moses, to ‘draw’ them of 100l.at plant, n.
High Life in London 23 Dec. 5/1: Gracious Heavens! to what degree of slip-slopwill The Morning Herald descend next? We suppose it will shortly inform us whether her Grace - prefers crumpets or muffins.at slip-slop, n.
High Life in London 30 Dec. 2/1: [T]he man told him that Moses would stash (compromise) the affair for 100l.at stash, v.1
High Life in London 13 Jan. 5/4: [T]hat fighting disposition, which, with or without cause, will quarrel until all is blue.at till all is blue, phr.
High Life in London 10 Feb. 8/2: [T]hat class of animals omitted by Linnaeus, but very satisfactorily defined by the arbiter elegantiarum of the Fancy, as tag-rag-and-bobtail!at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
High Life in London 23 Mar. 3/1: This caused the negroes [...] to say, ‘Dat damn cunning buckra, for him one eye sleeps, while toder keeps spell’ .at backra, n.
High Life in London 10 Feb. 5/2: [Baltimore paper] Coming home in a new-fashioned bang-up.at bang-up, n.1
High Life in London 27 Jan. 5/2: Oh! Gemini! to see the airs and graces of the stick-twirling bantams, the tossing heads of mincing Mesmoiselles.at bantam, n.
High Life in London 13 Jan. 5/4: ‘Knock him down’—‘that’s it go it, my boy tip him a Belcher.’—Confusion; uproar, glasses [...] smashed into ‘smithereens’.at belcher, n.1
High Life in London 13 Jan. 5/4: Your companions [...] are all boozy.at boozy, adj.
High Life in London 27 Jan. 2/2: ‘I want you, Dan,’ continues Mercury. ‘More’s the pity, my chicken,’ replies Dan, ‘because I can’t attend to you’.at chicken, n.
High Life in London 20 Jan. 7/1: Witness obtained the assistance of some other watchmen, and after a desperate resistance, lodged the prisoner in the Compter. ‘Elizabeth,’ he said, ‘was a computed prostitute’.at computed, adj.
High Life in London 20 Jan. 5/1: He flew upon Darby O’Kelly, / And taking the lad by surprise, / He gave him a punch in the belly.at darby kelly, n.
High Life in London 2 Mar. 88/2: [T]here were some good interchanges, both napping it on their dominoes, and both showing blood.at domino, n.1
High Life in London 10 Feb. 8/3: In the flash meetings [...] by the quietness and inoffensiveness of his manners, reconciles and composes the heterogeneous elements in which he is placed.at flash, adj.
High Life in London 3 Feb. 8/4: It was comical enough to see Langan [...] endeavouring to imitate the slang of Yorkshire, and Manchester, and London [...] He was the English flashman every inch.at flashman, n.
High Life in London 27 Jan. 2/2: ‘[A]s to Mister Kendall’s story about smashing his glaze in the skylight, I knows nothen about it whatsumds ever’.at glaze, n.
High Life in London 13 Jan. 2/2: ‘How dare you swear that there was no furniture in my house? It is a vile and wilful perjury, and as false as hell’.at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
High Life in London 3 Feb. 8/3: Langan is a native of Dublin, and was born in a place called from time immemorial ‘Mud Island’ [...] a kind of privileged fastness for rogues and robbers, and debtors and gamblers, &c.at Mud Island, n.
High Life in London 13 Jan. 2/3: lt was here stated that Mr. Britton kept a ‘lady,’ at home, and that was the principal cause of his anxiety to get rid of his wife.at lady, n.
High Life in London 20 Jan. 3/4: ‘D— good—done the job—nothing like Peruvian [i.e. a variety of medicinal bark]—never was better in my life; shiver me’ .at shiver me!, excl.
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