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‘A Ballad on Lord Pelham’s Birth-day’ in Sussex Advertiser 6 Dec. 1802 2/4: Then all ye Northern Freeholders / Come harkwn my story, / And vote for this brave Whig Lord, / Who’ll live like Tory Rory.at tory rory, adj.
‘A Ballad on Lord Pelham’s Birth-day’ in Sussex Advertiser 6 Dec. 1802 2/4: Then all ye Northern Freeholders / Come harkwn my story, / And vote for this brave Whig Lord, / Who’ll live like Tory Rory. Sussex Advertiser 22 Nov. 2/2: This Day is publish’d [...] The Warbler, or Songsters’ Delight [...] recommended to all Lovers of Vocal Musick.at warbler, n.
Sussex Advertiser 11 July 4/1: Aminadab to William Pitt. ‘Verily unto thee I say [etc’.at Aminadab, n.
Sussex Advertiser 23 Aug. 2/4: To leave thee Moll, to pine and languish, / I own deserves an oaken towel.at oaken towel, n.
Sussex Advertiser 19 Apr. 3/3: 3,000 spectators [...] many of whom all the neighbouring trees [...] occupied, to obtain a more commanding view of [...] the fatal tree.at triple tree, n.
Sussex Advertiser 9 Sept. 3/4: A gentleman’s servant, grotesquely accoutred, sallied forth in a field [...] his brother sportsmen [...] felt great astonishment and mortification at finding that this renowed knight of the rainbow had done more execution [...] than they could effect.at ...the rainbow under knight of the..., n.
Sussex Advertiser 26 Apr. 4/2: Here was the most delicious ox, beef, most magnificent hams [...] and other belly furniture.at belly furniture (n.) under belly, n.
Sussex Advertiser 26 Apr. 4/2: The mobocracy advanced to the fair, where the most stupendous ansd horrific preparations were made for the gratification of their fancy.at mob, n.2
Sussex Advertiser 6 Nov. 3/2: Garrick’s Popular Comedy of ‘Miss in her Teens’. Captain Flash by Mr Kinloch.at Captain Flash (n.) under captain, n.
Sussex Advertiser 30 June 3/5: I’ve seen him reel brimful of parish grog stupid and drunk as David’s female hog.at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
Sussex Advertiser 11 Aug. 3/4: The sheeny hadone of his ogles closed and his conque damaged.at conk, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 19 May 3/5: In a Foot-Race [...] between a Coachman and a Waiter [...] the Knight of the Napkin flew past his brother Knight of the Whip.at ...the napkin under knight of the..., n.
Sussex Advertiser 30 June 3/5: The poor might have some good small beer from that waste butt called — Overseer.at waste-butt (n.) under waste, n.
Sussex Advertiser 2 Feb. 3/5: My stars and garters! only see / The crop on that black pudding tree.at my stars and garters!, excl.
Sussex Advertiser 10 May 4/2: Hyde Park [...] The fineness of the day, and the absence of the mobocracy tempted to the promenade most of [...] the haut ton.at mob, n.2
Sussex Advertiser 3 May 2/3: The breeches and waistcoat were put up the pawnbroker’s spout and [...] he had not a farthing in the world.at up the spout under spout, n.2
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at adam tiler, n.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: There were Corinthians in their bang-ups — the swell coves in their tandems, gigs, or on a bit of horse-flesh.at bang-up, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: The only beaks who opposed it were the ‘black coats’.at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at bully huff (n.) under bully, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at bully huff (n.) under bully, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Our friend was completely ‘stow whidded’ and cut his stick.at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Let him wait till he gets at me; I shall make ‘dog’s meat’ of him yet, and do him ‘Brown’ twice over till he turns ‘jet black’.at dog’s meat, n.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/4: Moaning and praying alternately, he at length reached the drop [...] The drop at length fell as he still prayed.at drop, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at fancy cove (n.) under fancy, adj.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: [We] soon passed a long string of gaggers, priggers, Adam Tylers, fancy coves, autum [sic] morts, gammoners, sweetners, uprightmen, bully huffs, lully priggers, star gazers, and coves of all sorts.at gagger, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Pitmen, colliers, bog-trotters, black-legs, ken-cadgers with their king’s motts, knights of the road, and also a few knights of the brush and moon.at ken-cadger (n.) under ken, n.1
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Pitmen, colliers, bog-trotters, black-legs, ken-cadgers with their king’s motts, knights of the road, and also a few knights of the brush and moon.at ...the brush and moon under knight of the..., n.
Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Pitmen, colliers, bog-trotters, black-legs, ken-cadgers with their king’s motts, knights of the road, and also a few knights of the brush and moon.at knight of the road, n.
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