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Poems (1846) V 197: Nor yet did the heiress herself omit The arts that help to make a hit [F&H].at make a hit (v.) under hit, n.
Poems (1846) V 197: Nor yet did the heiress herself omit The arts that help to make a hit [F&H]. ‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 145: The time for sleep had come at last; / And there was the bed, so soft, so vast, / Quite a field of Bedfordshire clover.at Bedfordshire, n.
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ Poems (1846) I 156: Not to forget that saucy lad / (Ostentation’s favourite cad), / The page, who looked so splendidly clad.at cad, n.1
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ Poems (1846) I 124: He rubb’d, poor soul, / His carroty poll.at carrotty, adj.
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ Poems (1846) I 177: The felon condemned to die [...] elopes / To caper on sunny greens and slopes / Instead of the dance upon nothing.at dance on nothing (v.) under dance, v.
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ Poems I (1846) n.p.: The felon condemned to die [...] elopes / To a caper on sunny greens and slopes Instead of the dance upon nothing.at dance upon nothing (v.) under dance, v.
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 161: The crowd including two butchers in blue (The regular killing Whitechapel hue).at killing, adj.
‘Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 171: Because she refused to go down to a mill / She didn’t know where but remembered still / That the miller’s name was Mendoza.at miller, n.1
‘Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 121: Turn we to little Miss Kilmansegg, Cutting her first little toothy-peg.at toothy-pegs, n.
‘Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 169: Home-made pop that will not foam.at pop, n.1
‘Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 113: Although, by the vulgar popular saw, / All mothers are said to be ‘in the straw,’ / Some children are born in clover.at in (the) straw under straw, n.
‘Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) I 172–3: His checks no longer drew the cash, / Because, as his comrades explain’d in flash, / ‘He had overdrawn his badger’.at overdraw one’s badger, v.
‘Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg’ in Poems (1846) 142: To exhibit a six-legged calf / To a boothful of country Cuddies .at cuddy, n.1
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