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Six Days in the Metropolis 7: ‘Full as a tick, ma’am,’ said a man [...] ‘We’re as thick as three in a bed,’ added another.at ...three in a bed under thick as..., adj.
Six Days in the Metropolis 7: ‘Full as a tick, ma’am,’ said a man [...] ‘We’re as thick as three in a bed,’ added another. Six Days in the Metropolis 28: I give her a bat side of the head, but you don’t call that assaulting her, do ye?at bat, n.2
Six Days in the Metropolis 85: I’m off in the first train tomorrow morning, and I sha’nt been seen in these diggings again.at diggings, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 74: A swarthy, sloppy, dingy yet good-natured negress.at dingy, adj.1
Six Days in the Metropolis 16: I mean for you to fork over to me twenty-five dollars as my share of the dosh you got of that flat.at dosh, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 10: Omnibus drivers [...] look after every sixpence and ‘knock down’ all they can [...] ‘Knocking down’ is a phrase denoting the act of appropriating their employer’s money to their own individual purposes.at knock down, v.
Six Days in the Metropolis 75: Molly Brown [...] had just been pardoned out of the House of Correction , where she had been sent for shaking down the venerable John Smith.at shake down, v.
Six Days in the Metropolis 70: Here is a pretty go. How the devil can I go out to dine with a dirty shirt.at go, n.1
Six Days in the Metropolis 15: If greeny don’t gain some experience and I some remuneration for putting him through a course of sprouts.at greenie, n.1
Six Days in the Metropolis 85: ‘Tell me all about it [i.e. a charity concert] — all a ‘hum’ was it not?’ [...] ‘Well, there was a screw loose’.at hum, n.2
Six Days in the Metropolis 64: ‘Don’t you think she had better be sent to the Island’ [...] ‘No, she must not be moved [...] she may recover’.at Island, the, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 11: Jehu [...] brought his lash down about the ears of both horses, and like lightning we shot ahead!at jehu, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 48: Implements of all sorts taken from burglars [...] There are jimmies, jack-screws, saws, skeleton-keys, and matches for blowing open locks.at jimmy, n.2
Six Days in the Metropolis 75: Go it, Lize. Go it while your [sic] young [...] go in, lemons!at lemons, adv.
Six Days in the Metropolis 85: I’m o-p-h tomorrow morning.at o.p.h., adv.
Six Days in the Metropolis 18: He was well educated, espeially in the arts of rolling ten pins [...] dealing fancy paste-board.at pasteboard, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 77: The magistrate [...] had sent her ‘over’ once for a similar offence.at send over (v.) under send, v.
Six Days in the Metropolis 39: A herd of curb stone brokers of the most despicable and dangerous description; Shylocks and men worse than Shylocks — blood-suckers.at shylock, n.
Six Days in the Metropolis 15: He takes the loss of a fifty spot very coolly.at -spot, sfx
Six Days in the Metropolis 46: [in Boston, Mass.] The ‘star’ laughed and assured him that he was addressing a policeman .at star, n.1
Six Days in the Metropolis 73: That’ll do. It’s just the ticket.at just the ticket under ticket, n.1
Six Days in the Metropolis 16: Here’s twenty-five. I got the toad-skin changed at a broker’s.at toadskin (n.) under toad, n.
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