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The Ambassadors choose

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[US] H. James Ambassadors I 9: His eyes were so quiet behind his eternal nippers that they might almost have been absent without changing his face.
at nipper, n.2
[US] H. James Ambassadors xxii 291: One of his sisters [...] had observed her somewhere with me. She had spoken to her brother – turned him on.
at turn on, v.
[US] H. James Ambassadors (1960) 127: I think I make out a ‘Portagee’.
at Portagee, n.
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