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Luckiest Girl in School 67: ‘[S]hut up ! A boy of sixteen isn’t going to be bear-led by an old fogey like Joynson’.at bear-leader (n.) under bear, n.
Luckiest Girl in School 67: ‘[S]hut up ! A boy of sixteen isn’t going to be bear-led by an old fogey like Joynson’. Luckiest Girl in School 9: ‘Well, of all the rum shows!’ exclaimed Percy. ‘You and Aunt Harriet in double harness ! It beats me altogether!’.at beat, v.
Luckiest Girl in School 240: ‘Oh, you’re big! I didn’t think any one in the world would have done that for me’.at big, adj.
Luckiest Girl in School 138: ‘We may throw up the sponge if Joyce is off!’ mourned Olave Parry. ‘Shut up, you blue-bottle!’ snapped Winona.at bluebottle (n.) under blue, adj.1
Luckiest Girl in School 38: ‘Comprenez vous? It’s a matter of seizing one’s chance’.at comprende?, excl.
Luckiest Girl in School 126: ‘Where’s Margaret? I want to confab’.at confab, v.
Luckiest Girl in School 3: ‘We always have more or less of a fuss when my school bills come in. It’ll soon fizzle out again!’.at fizzle (out), v.
Luckiest Girl in School 76: ‘If Bunty puts me to construe anywhere on page 21, I’m a gone coon’.at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
Luckiest Girl in School 125: ‘Oh, the grizzly bad luck of it!’ she wailed to Garnet. ‘It would have been idyllic to coach those kids’ [ibid.] 126: ‘Did you ever hear of such grizzly luck in your life?’.at grizzly, adj.
Luckiest Girl in School 105: ‘You promised mother you wouldn’t bet again, after what happened last Easter.’ ‘Now don’t you go jaw-wagging!’.at jaw, n.
Luckiest Girl in School 71: ‘Great Juggins ! Do I look like the mainstay of a family?’.at Great Juggins! (excl.) under juggins, n.
Luckiest Girl in School 136: ‘If any of you muff the ball or do anything stupid. I’ll never forgive you!’.at muff, v.1
Luckiest Girl in School 66: If you can peg it out in comfort with the dragon so much to the good.at peg it out (v.) under peg out, v.
Luckiest Girl in School 107: ‘Paws off! [...] Anybody who interferes with this Kodak will quarrel with me’.at paw, n.
Luckiest Girl in School 9: ‘Indeed I shan’t!’ flared Winona indignantly [...] ‘That’s right! Upset the pepper-pot! I was only trying to comfort you!’ teased Percy.at upset the pepper pot (v.) under pepper, n.
Luckiest Girl in School 237: ‘Miss Goodson doesn’t tell me plump out that I’ll be plucked, but I can see she thinks so!’.at pluck, v.
Luckiest Girl in School 237: ‘Miss Goodson doesn’t tell me plump out that I’ll be plucked, but I can see she thinks so!’.at plump, adv.
Luckiest Girl in School 126: ‘What’ll become of the match I don’t know. It makes me feel rocky’.at rocky, adj.
Luckiest Girl in School 9: ‘Well, of all the rum shows!’ exclaimed Percy. ‘You and Aunt Harriet in double harness ! It beats me altogether!’.at rummish (adj.) under rum, adj.
Luckiest Girl in School 141: ‘The match to-morrow will be all off!’ [...] ‘What a grizzly nuisance! Oh, the hard luck of it !’ ‘Kirsty’ll be as savage as we are!’.at savage, adj.
Luckiest Girl in School 19: ‘I’ll make as good a shot as I can at things, and if I fail — well, I shall have plenty of companions in misfortune’.at shot, n.1
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