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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table choose

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[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 73: The Provincial blue-noses are in the habit of beating the ‘metropolitan’ boat-clubs.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 206: The last effort of decayed fortune is expended in smoothing its dilapidated castor. The hat is the ultimum morieus of ‘respectability’ .
at castor, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 52: The prisoner sniffed, and with a crashing sneeze, / Off his head tumbled.
at crashing, adj.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 300: The young fellow called John [...] said it was ‘rum’ to hear me ‘pitchin’ into fellers’ for ‘goin’ it in the slang line,’ when I used all the flash words myself.
at flash, n.1
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 143: Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn’t pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.
at Hub, the, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 339: A cheaply got-up youth [...] laughed at by the girls in his village [...] ‘got the mitten’.
at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 337: The Rat-bag has stolen your piece, after carefully scratching your name out.
at ratbag, n.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 300: The young fellow called John [...] said it was ‘rum’ to hear me ‘pitchin’ into fellers’ for ‘goin’ it in the slang line,’ when I used all the flash words myself.
at rum, adj.
[US] O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 206: When the Danish pirates made descents upon the English coast, they caught a few tartars occasionally, in the shape of Saxons.
at catch a tartar (v.) under tartar, n.
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