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Leeds Times 30 July 6/2: The man opposite the Elephant and Castle (a well-known tormentor of catgut) would be the worst player in England.at tormentor of catgut, n.
Leeds Times 30 July 6/2: The man opposite the Elephant and Castle (a well-known tormentor of catgut) would be the worst player in England. Leeds Times 26 Nov. 3/1: This beats all the mirrors in England by chalks.at by chalks under chalk, n.1
Leeds Times 19 Nov. 4/1: He did this in his smallest type [...] hoping, we suppose, that he might pass unseen. But [...] we shall fix this Jerry Sneak of the press firm enough.at jerry sneak, n.1
Leeds Times 26 Nov. 3/1: Old Frizzle arrives to dress me.at old frizzle (n.) under old, adj.
Leeds Times 4 Feb. 3/2: She earned a part of their living by charring, as it is called.at char, v.
Leeds Times 15 July 5/2: I heard him say [...] ‘Hold your din’.at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
Leeds Times 27 Dec. 7/2: D—n you, hold your din, or else I’ll murder you.at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
Leeds Times (Yorks.) 7 Oct. 5/1: He began to kick up a shine.at kick up a shine (v.) under shine, n.2
Leeds Times 14 Oct. 4/1: He need not trouble his thickhead any more with mere paper spite.at thickhead, n.
Leeds Times 5 May 4/2: Our neighbour B. keepsparticularly quiet whenever his worthy parent thus happens to get on the wrong side of the hedge.at on the wrong side of the hedge under hedge, n.2
Leeds Times 17 Feb. 5/4: The knight of the quill was much elated, boasting in high-sounding words.at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
Leeds Times (Yorks.) 25 Aug. 6/3: Oh dear [...] I’m blessed if I ar’nt sold like a bullock in Smithfield.at sold like a bullock in Smithfield (adj.) under sold, adj.
Leeds Times 11 Aug. 4/3: Against ‘two faces under one hood’ there cannot in the abstract be any objection.at two faces under one hood (n.) under two, adj.
Leeds Times 18 May 4: There is a counterfeit crank of falling sickness.at counterfeit crank, n.
Leeds Times 9 Feb. 4/3: An Operative Conservative is a political pock-pudding [...] a toady-eater — a glue-head — a knave.at gluehead (n.) under glue, n.
Leeds Times 9 Feb. 4/3: An Operative Conservative is a political pock-pudding [...] a toady-eater — a glue-head — a knave.at pock-pudding, n.
Leeds Times 10 Aug. 6/2: How many [English Peasants]have been carried off to man your fleets, and when they came on shore again were no longer the simple slouching Simons of the village, but jolly tars, with rolling gait, quid in mouth [etc].at simple simon, n.1
Leeds Times 8 Aug. 6/4: Punch & the New Police [...] [Punch] had just knocked the constable, who comes apprehend him for the murder of his wife and child, on the head [...] when he was unseasonably interrupted by the appearance a blue-coated, pewter-buttoned, big-fisted, heavy-footed, marble-hearted, leather-headed Jack-in-office, who, without mercy or remorse, commanded both him and his patrons to ‘move on’.at blue and pewter (n.) under blue, adj.1
Leeds Times 3 Oct. 7/6: Some get dead drunk, blind drunk, aye, in the gutter.at dead, adv.
Leeds Times 3 Oct. 7/5: A down-easter recently came to New York, and took lodgings for the night.at Down-easter, n.
Leeds Times 3 Oct. 7/5: Jonathan caught the arm of his guide and accosted him thus:- ‘Look here, stranger’.at stranger, n.
Leeds Times 3 Apr. 5/4: Let them join giblets by all means.at join giblets (v.) under giblets, n.
Leeds Times 11 Sept. 3/6: Oh! you wicked woman! Take all your Methody bonnets away!at Methody, adj.
Leeds Times 25 June 7/1: I’ve come to spiflicate you if you won’t be quiet; and if I don’t I’m a Dutchman.at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
Leeds Times 21 May 6/6: The Rev. Mr Kirk is preached from six to fourteen sermons per week in Boston. If he goes ahead at this rate he will burst his boiler.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
Leeds Times 4 June 6/2: The god of thieving [...] the idol of unnumbered votaries in many a ‘Flash Ken’ and many a ‘Boozing Crib’.at boozing crib (n.) under boozing, n.
Leeds Times 5 Nov. 6/2: ‘Dang it, he’s a queer fellow that’.at dang, v.
Leeds Times 12 Mar. 4/4: The opressed poor [...] itinerate from batile to bastile, guaging water-gruel, testing dog’s-body and gathering up rags.at dogsbody, n.
Leeds Times 5 Nov. 6/1: ‘What, sir, am I not in Frogland? Ain’t she a virgin, sir?’.at Frogland (n.) under Frog, n.
Leeds Times 5 Nov. 6/1: ‘You are a pock-pudding, all guts and garbage,’ says he.at pock-pudding, n.
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