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A Trip to Scarborough choose

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[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough II i: That’s the properest place – (aside) – to bubble him out of his money.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I i: ’Sdeath and furies! why was that coxcomb thrust into the world before me?
at death!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough IV i: I’cod, I would not care if he was hang’d.
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I i: Has he been addressing your old flame, the sprightly Widow Berinthia?
at flame, n.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I i: Gad-so, Sir.
at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough V ii: By goles, they look so fine and so stiff.
at by goll! (excl.) under goll, n.2
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough II i: ’Slife! he’s run through the guts.
at gut, n.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I ii: Come, Lory, lay your loggerhead to mine.
at loggerhead, n.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I ii: Amanda is a charming creature – strike me ugly. [Ibid.] II i: Thou art a generous fellow, strike me dumb!
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I ii: In love with them, stap my vitals!
at stap my vitals!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough V ii: What the pax do you mean, gentlemen?
at pax on —!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough I ii: Rat the hooks and buttons, Sir, can anything be worse than this?
at rat, v.1
[UK] Sheridan Trip to Scarborough V ii: Udzookers!
at ud, n.
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