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Amer. Notes (1985) 50: Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most latitudes, they rather desire to be thought superior than to be so.at blue, adj.4
Amer. Notes (1985) 50: Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most latitudes, they rather desire to be thought superior than to be so. Amer. Notes (1985) 137: I’ma brown forester, I am. I an’ta Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skins where I live. We’re rough men there.at johnny cake, n.
Amer. Notes x 86: You call upon a gentleman in a country town, and his help informs you that he is fixing himself just now, but will be down directly: by which you are to understand that he is dressing. You inquire, on board a steamboat, of a fellow-passenger, whether breakfast will be ready soon, and he tells you he should think, for when he was last below, they were fixing the tables; in other words, laying the cloth. You beg a porter to collect your luggage, and he entreats you not to be uneasy, for he’ll fix it presently, and if you complain of indisposition, you are advised to have recourse to Doctor so and so who will fix you in no time.at fix, v.1
Amer. Notes (1985) 132: Will you try, said my opposite neighbour, handing me a dish of potatoes, broken up in milk and butter, will you try some of these fixings.at fixings, n.1
Amer. Notes (1985) 54: There, too, the stranger is initiated into the mysteries of [...] Sherry-cobbler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks.at timber-doodle (n.) under timber, n.
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