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Fables of Abstemiu choose

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[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLIV 229: Let us for Argument sake, suppose Pilling and Polling Officers, as Busie upon the People as These Flies were upon the Fox.
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCCVI 276: This Thick-skull’d Blunderhead.
at blunderhead, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCCII 272: A poor Body comes to the Door [...] to beg a Charity.
at body, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCCVI 276: I’ll Fart with That Puppy for his Commission, and leave it to Judgement [...] which has the Clearer, and the Better Scented Pipe of the Two.
at fart, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLXXXIX 260: The Birds were in a Mortal Apprehension of the Beetles.
at mortal, adj.1
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCXCVIII 268: He only Pist upon the Pears in Contempt.
at piss on, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLXII 236: The Poor Man calls presently to his Ass, in a Terrible Fright, to Scoure away as fast as he could Scamper.
at scour, v.2
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLXIII 237: How now Bold-Face, crys an Old Trot.
at trot, n.1
[UK] R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCCII 272: The Woman would be perpetually Twitting of her Second Husband, what a Man her First was. [...] This was Their way of Teizing One-Another.
at twit, v.
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