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The Devil rides outside choose

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[US] H.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 379: ‘Wish I had a bellyful of that one myself. Was it good?’ ‘She’s positively fiendish, Salesky’.
at fiendish(-back), adj.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 174: I married a woman because we slept well together. [...] . I have everything most men want—money, social prestige, success in my field, a good bed.
at bed, n.
[US] H.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 478: ‘Why [...] must you search frantically for the woman [...] who excites you to bullishness?’.
at bullishness (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 312: [A] country dance with a bumptious, buxom, giggling girl.
at bumptious, adj.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 316: ‘I suspect she shakes her fanny for about anything she wants around here anyway’.
at shake one’s fanny (v.) under fanny, n.1
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 279: Her eyes know heats and the pleasure of rutting.
at heat, n.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 316: ‘[H]ave you ever tried to pat [a Frenchwoman] on the behind the next day? Chances are she slapped you to heaven’.
at to heaven (adv.) under heaven, n.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 128: ‘[F]ood is high here. There’s no need for you to spend any more on me’.
at high, adj.2
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 202: ‘And how’re you making it with Madame Renée?’ he asks.
at make it, v.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 119: All in a world out of reach. Their feet are warm and mine are cold. They live big and I live little.
at live large (v.) under large, adv.
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 78: [H]e runs with black skirts flying, sloshing water from the pail he carries.
at slosh, v.2
[US] J.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 202: ‘Rosza Leachebach had to leave the Opera on account of her sickness. She's a syph, you know’.
at syph, n.
[US] H.H. Griffin the Devil rides outside 318: ‘She's a good looker for her age. I could tear up her—’.
at tear up, v.
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