1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 121: He’s a man, but he’s nothing but pasteboard. He sort of stands round, and spreads and lets off all the big talk he hears.at big talk, n.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 212: He disliked a ‘blue,’ and not only disliked her, but was afraid of her.at blue, n.1
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 29: I’ll [...] try legs with that little Kanuck of his.at Canuck, n.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 262: I tell you we feel pretty crank about having a book-writer in Crampton.at crank, adj.2
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 150: ‘Mr. Arthur Blague,’ said old Ruggles [...] ‘this is Mr. Dan Buck, of New York.’ ‘Plague, how are you? How’s your ma’am?’ ‘Buck, how are you? How’s your doe?’.at doe, n.1
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 153: Now, tell a feller, is there any chance to knock down?at knock down, v.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 154: He had succeeded in establishing the most cordial relations between himself and the portion of the family which he had collectively designated as the ‘dry-goods’.at dry goods, n.2
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 146: Have you hitched on anywhere yet? [...] I mean have you got a girl?at hitch (up), v.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: If you’ll take thunder and lightning and a steamboat and a buzz-saw and mix ’em up and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.at jasm, n.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career 386: When that little wife of mine says, ‘Tom, you’re a good feller, God bless you,’ it goes right in where I live [DA].at where one lives under live, v.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 153: ‘Who is that fat old lollypop in the door yonder?’ ‘That is Mrs. Ruggles, your landlady.’.at lollipop, n.1
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 121: He sort o’ stands round, and spreads, and lets off all the big talk he hears. Ain’t he rather numerous, though?at numerous, adj.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: Now what’s the use of running a feller?at run, v.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: ‘Got a smart mother, has she?’ ‘Yes sir. No mistake about that.’.at yes sir!, excl.
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 152: ‘You’ll find him a hard customer,’ said Arthur. ‘Soap’s the word, my boy [...] Lord! I can stuff his old carcass so full he won’t know his head from a bushel-basket.’.at soap, n.1
1860 J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 262: I like it first-rate. It’s a tall thing – it’s a trump.at tall, adj.