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[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 348: [I] said that I had fifteen cents left and was willing to stand a quart of ale [...] ‘Beer! I’m there,’ exclaimed dirty ruffian number two.at be there, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 348: [I] said that I had fifteen cents left and was willing to stand a quart of ale [...] ‘Beer! I’m there,’ exclaimed dirty ruffian number two. [Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 59: ‘Staked the captain? ‘No. We’re on the break-up.’ ‘Staked the beat?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Heavy?’ ‘Five dollars a night’ .at beat, n.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 60: ‘That sucker [...] has been beat out of his money, and hasn’t found it out yet. Don’t let him squeal here’.at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 4: ‘[He] will show you some sights that will make your hair stand on end. Though [...] things have improved a little of late, in consequence of the business’ (what a business!) ‘being so blown upon’.at blow, v.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 446: All soon voted dinner [on the summit of Mont Blanc] a bore.at bore, n.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 365: ‘Mary!’ exclaimed Mag, tossing her head disdainfully, ‘who’s bossing this speech—you or me?’.at boss, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 426: Hungry as I was, I found dinner no easy matter. My friend and fellow-mountaineer was in the same box.at in the same box under box, n.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 339: ‘Fact; the nut broke the bill at Newark; I saw him; he ain’t drunk, and so can’t be bust yet’.at break, v.4
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 59: ‘Staked the captain? ‘No. We’re on the break-up.’ ‘Staked the beat?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Heavy?’ ‘Five dollars a night’ .at on the break-up (adj.) under break-up, n.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 187: ‘That won’t do, bubby; I don’t sell such measly apples as that’ .at bubby, n.2
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 339: ‘Fact; the nut broke the bill at Newark; I saw him; he ain’t drunk, and so can’t be bust yet’.at bust, adj.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 360: [S]pringing up, he called out: ‘Boss, I’m bustin’ to make a speech. Somebody run for a wooden chair for me to stand on’.at busting, adj.2
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 404: ‘Hulloah, cop! yer bought that [i.e. a deceptive story],’ exclaimed a hatless and shoeless urchin.at buy, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 120: So I was accepted as a passenger-hand; and, having transported my ‘duds’ to the boat, and stowed them away in my quarters [. . .] I began life as a ‘canawller’.at canaller, n.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 262: [R]ound after round was served to the little party who hugged the fire. They were the ‘choice spirits’ among Mr. Casey’s patrons.at choice spirit, n.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 4: [A] charge brought by a fine-looking young sailor [...] against a boarding-house crimp for assault. It appeared that the crimp had been endeavoring to fleece the sailor, and, finding that his rapacious demands were not likely to be complied with, had coolly knocked him down.at crimp, n.2
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 37: I then passed down Thirty-fourth Street [...] but I only picked up two or three single cents on the way. But I was approaching a better cruising ground for beggars!at cruise, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 136: ‘Young man! them pills is the damnationest fraud as ever was’.at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 136: ‘Hat Spoor was God-damned fool enough to go and do as I told him!’ .at god-damned, adj.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 280: [T]hat medium was a first-class fraud [...] these six innocents had been thoroughly taken in and effectually done for.at do for, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 258: Lame Pete has recently ‘done six months’ in Brooklyn.at do, v.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 60: [T]he negro servant [...] whispered that one of the girls had just passed the house with a sucker.at girl, n.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 59: ‘Staked the captain? ‘No. We’re on the break-up.’ ‘Staked the beat?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Heavy?’ ‘Five dollars a night’ .at heavy, adv.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 338: ‘Holloa, cap!’ I called out, sitting up in the wagon. ‘Who the hell’s that?’ was the polite rejoinder.at who the hell...?, phr.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 64: [playing keno] ‘Well, here goes for old 129! If I don’t hit this time, I’m dead beat’ .at hit, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 39: He [i.e. a police officer] parted with me after threatening to ‘take me in’ and ‘have me sent up’ if he caught me begging again.at take in, v.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 410: [H]e exclaimed, ‘S’long,’ and swayed away up the street.at so long, phr.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 371: [C]ries of ‘Stand at ease,’ ‘Dress to the right,’ ‘Shoulder arms,’ etc., to return thanks for those members of the profession who are minus an optic.at minus, adj.
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 174: [R]ansacking their memories for the horrors of previous executions which they had witnessed [...] , and numbering up how many they had seen ‘turned off.’ .at turn off, v.1
[Arthur Pember] Mysteries and Miseries 57: He moved about with [...] a nervous quickness which at once proclaimed him a skillful operator.at operator, n.
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