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Morning Post and Dly Advertiser 10 Mar. 2/4: Drunkenness itself could not excuse [...] the mushroom vanity of a hackney quill-driver in a silk grown.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
Morning Post and Dly Advertiser 10 Mar. 2/4: Drunkenness itself could not excuse [...] the mushroom vanity of a hackney quill-driver in a silk grown. Morning Post (London) 21 June n.p.: Edmund, the Paymaster’s Tyburn Top Scratch is immediately to be disposed of [...] as is also Sheridan’s tragi-comic frizzled queue.at scratch, n.2
Morn. Post (London) Jan. 18 n.p.: May the Tyburn Tippet become a fashionable wear among the Friends of Reform this Winter.at Tyburn tippet (n.) under Tyburn, n.
Morn. Post (London) 7 Sept. n.p.: His respectable brother of the sock and buskin, Holland of Drury-lane, kindly lends his assistance at the Brighton theatre tomorrow.at brother (of the) buskin (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Morn. Post (London) 5 Aug. 2/4: Several black-legs, having run at the wrong side of the winning-post, thought proper to hop the twig.at hop the twig, v.
Morn. Post (London) 24 Mar. 3/3: Lord Cloncurry, though by no means a spendthrift, is [...] far removed from the scrape-all.at scrape-all (n.) under scrape, v.
Morn. Post (London) Alderman Curtis’s Barber takes all the credit fore the punctuality with which his master’s Government Securities are always paid. Clerks in office never trifle with a cunning shaver: .at cunning shaver (n.) under cunning, adj.
Morn. Post (London) 22 Dec. 3/2: The Lady’s conduct, her gallantries, at Brighton last summer, have come to his Lordship’s ears, and [...] he has no desire to wear horns.at wear (the) horns (v.) under horn, n.1
Morn. Post (London) 26 Feb. 3/1: The Highgate Apothecary, who courted Miss Mellish, knowing that some of her name are eminent carcase butchers, thought it quite in the family way to drive a Smithfield bargain.at Smithfield bargain (n.) under Smithfield, n.
Morn. Post (London) 12 Sept. 3/4: He was sneeringly called Mahafft the ring-dropper, because he sold pinchbeck rings.at ring faller, n.
Morn. Post (London) 8 Nov. 2/2: The pamphlet [...] has been adopted from its birth as a favourite chance-child [...] rocked, from the arms of the midwife, in the cradle of newspaper patronage.at chance child, n.
Morn. Post (London) 28 June 3/4: The libel was contained in a letter signed An Old Sailior, in which the Admiral is represented as a ‘shy cock’ [...] ‘He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day’.at shy-cock, n.
Morn. Post (London) 1 June 1/2: Persons wishing to supply the Workhouse [...] with meat of the best quality to consist of Clods and Stickings of Beef.at stickings, n.
Morn. Post (London) 22 Jan. 3/3: A lucky bit will pay each debt, / And make you rich beside, Sir.at bit, n.1
Morn. Post (London) 22 Jan. 3/3: I am the little Blue Coat Boy / [...] / I drive away, when cares annoy, / Blue Devils all from you, Sir.at blue devils, n.
Morn. Post (London) 25 Apr. 3/1: He cried — he roar’d [...] Death! Hell! and Furies! what dost thou do there?at death!, excl.
Morn. Post (London) 25 May 4/2: Madcap, Brown Mare aged, by Fortunio, dam by Holy-heck, a good hunter.at heck, n.
Morn. Post (London) 25 Nov. 1/3: Quoth Jobson, while drinking his nappy with glea, / We’ve a son, Nell, odzooks, let’s send him to sea.at odzooks! (excl.) under ods, n.
Morn. Post (London) 5 Jan. 3/3: A Box-lobby Lounger was heard to say [...] at Drury-Lane, that the French had certainly been taken in the rear, and defeated in the Fistula.at box-lobby puppy (n.) under box, n.1
Morn. Post (London) 12 Oct. 3/2: Jack considered himself a sure card, but he has since had reason to alter his opinion! at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
Morn. Post (London) 8 June 3/3: The Revolutionist’s New Song [...] ‘No Morning Post’ is all the cry / [...] / A fig for solid sense, says I, / ’Tis time to cut it — what say you? / A fiddlestick for constitution!at cut it, v.1
Morn. Post (London) 8 June 1/2: We want John Bull to take the huff.at take (the) huff (v.) under huff, n.
Morn. Post (London) 8 June 1/2: Perhaps kicking up a riot, / Might make the loyal brawlers quiet.at kick up a riot (v.) under kick up, v.
Morn. Post (London) 12 Oct. 3/2: One of the first billiard and forte-piano players [...] paid us a visit but soon took his departure on finding here more sharps than flats.at sharp, n.1
Morn. Post 4 Dec. 3/3: he entered the office with the manners [...] of what is generally termed a jolly dog, or knowing one, and by some he would have been called a rolling kiddy.at jolly dog, n.
Morn. Post 4 Dec. 3/3: he entered the office with the manners [...] of what is generally termed a jolly dog, or knowing one, and by some he would have been called a rolling kiddy.at rolling kiddy (n.) under rolling, adj.1
Morn. Post 26 June 3/2: The recommendation of the House of Commons relative to the Flemish account of the Dutch Commissioners.at Flemish account, n.
Morn. Post (London) 9 Jan. 3/3: O Jack, we must not always look for fun, / There’s graver matter here, sure’s a gun.at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
Morn. Post (London) 2 July 3/3: Many orces the enemy raises / [...] / To cut through our regiments like blazes.at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
Morn. Post (London) 28 June 3/4: He could not believe that his conduct had been such as the stupid, shirtless rapscallion and bully [...] had said.at bully, n.1
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