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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner choose

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[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 24: One of the competitors chanced to say rashly, in the moment of exultation, ‘That’s a d——d fine blow, George!’.
at damned, adv.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 11: ‘[A] heathenish man of Belial—a dangler among the daughters of women,—a promiscuous dancer,—and a player of unlawful games’.
at dangler, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 85: Every new disappointment only whetted her desire to fish up some particulars concerning it [. . . .] Returning very late one evening from a convocation of family servants, which she had drawn together in order to fish something out of them.
at fish (out) (v.) under fish, v.1
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 236: There was no flaring, no flummery, nor bombastical pretensions.
at flare, v.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 5: [B]eing considerably flustered by drinking, and disposed to take all in good part [etc].
at flustered, adj.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 24: [P]oints of such minor importance, that a true Christian would blush to hear them mentioned, and the infidel and profane make a handle of them to turn our religion to scorn.
at handle, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 50: ‘O, this will never do. Kick him out of the play-ground! Knock down the scoundrel’.
at kick out, v.1
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 166: He [an academic rival] [. . .] left the school for several months [...] and I stood king of the class.
at king, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 77: ‘Who has he quarrelled with?’ asked a third. ‘Don’t know.’— ‘Can’t tell, on my life’.
at on my life! (excl.) under life, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 103: ‘I canna help that, my lord: that’s her lookout’.
at lookout, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 250: [T]he judge’s sudden death made a great noise.
at noise, n.1
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 93: The saving of [my life] would not have cost you a plack, yet you refused to do it.
at plack, n.
[Scot] J. Hogg Justified Sinner 253: ‘Might we not rather pop him off in private and quietness, as we did the deistical divine?’ said I.
at pop, v.1
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