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The Leader of the Lower School choose

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[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 73: ‘Gipsy's hardly what you call a bread-and-butter Miss!’.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 197: ‘I’m going to do a bolt — don't give me away!’.
at bolt, n.1
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 181: ‘[S]he ought to be a dab critic of scenery by now’.
at dab, adj.1
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 74: ‘Wish you could make some [fudge] here, Yankee Doodle!’.
at Yankee Doodle, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 11: ‘We must have our growls — it lets off steam’.
at growl, n.4
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 165: ‘Oh, do let me speak! I’ll give it them hot!’ .
at hot, adv.
349 [UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 39: ‘Awfully pretty, I call her [...] Those big red bows are immense in more ways than one’.
at immense, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 29: Her knockabout life had taight her self control.
at knockabout, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 72: ‘Miss Yankee will have to find out we’re not all ready to lick her boots!’ .
at Miss, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 115: ‘Wouldn’t it be enough if each promises to do what she can?’ ‘Why? It's much better to nail people’.
at nail, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 130: I'll take care of Gipsy [...] make it easy for her, but I’ll nick in Leonora for more than she bargains.
at nick, v.1
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 129: ‘When I handed her my box of candied fruits, she picked out the very biggest!’ ‘How piggie!’.
at piggy, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 138: ‘We look like a set of grinning imbeciles! [...] with Sausage [a German teacher] for the arch-lunatic of us all [...] I don't like these foreign ways’ .
at sausage, n.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 107: ‘Not one ten-millionth part as nice. Ours [i.e. a magazine] is just too scrumptiously ripping!’ agreed Hetty.
at scrumptiously (adv.) under scrumptious, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 160: ‘Poppie barely tolerates Gipsy.’ ‘I agree with you there. She'd rejoice to see her shelved’ .
at shelf, v.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 255: ‘No more gadding about the world just at present. Will that suit you, little woman?’ ‘Splendiferously!’ answered Gipsy.
at splendiferous, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 117: ‘Hetty and I can get the silks, and you shall do some extra work to make it square. We shall be exactly quits’.
at square, adj.
[UK] A. Brazil Leader of the Lower School 10: ‘Isn't it withering?’ she remarked. ‘And just on the very afternoon when we'd made up our minds to decide the tennis championship’.
at withering, adj.
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