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The Bay Path choose

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[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path 88: He looked as savage as a meat axe, till she began to cry and take on.
at savage as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path 137: You’d better scull your dug-out over the drink again, and go to splittin’ oven-wood.
at drink, n.1
[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path 53: ‘Betsy and me have concluded to hitch teams, and we want to do it.’ ‘You wish to be married?’ ‘Yes, I believe that’s what they call it.’.
at hitch teams (v.) under hitch (up), v.
[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path 69: I have to live under their laws, and when they take a notion to swear away my character, I mustn’t kick.
at kick, v.1
[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path 209: There ain’t anything that’ll bring you to your milk half so quick as a good double-and-twisted thrashin .
at bring someone to their milk (v.) under milk, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Bay Path xiv: You’d ’a said twenty lashes, and she’d got ’em, and Mr. Moxon would ’a said twenty Amens on the end on ’em for a snapper .
at snapper, n.3
[US] J.G. Holland Bay path 187: What do you mean, you little slobber-chops?
at slobber-chops (n.) under slobber, n.
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