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A Thief in the Night (1992) 367: ‘Amyl – get me amyl!’ he gasped.at amyl, n.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 367: ‘Amyl – get me amyl!’ he gasped. A Thief in the Night (1992) 418: We mustn’t cut and run like rabbits.at cut and run, v.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 315: It looks to me like the only bottle, the last of its case [...] This baby is worth nursing.at baby, n.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 380: Ah, you biter, I wouldn’t soil my knuckles on your ugly face.at biter, n.1
Thief in the Night (1992) 383: He’ll be lucky if he ever gets up, blight and blister him!at blister, v.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 392: He was certainly bucking about his trophies.at buck, v.3
A Thief in the Night (1992) 381: I should judge [...] that it’s for Mr Maguire to say, or not to say, just as he darn pleases.at darn, adv.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 329: The convict is said to have replied, ‘Why it’s the first thing they’ll ask me at the other end of the drop!’.at drop, n.1
A Thief in the Night (1992) 384: Very well, very well, [...] one finger, if I must.at finger, n.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 284: ‘They might be brothers,’ rejoined Raffles, who knew all the loose fish about town.at loose fish (n.) under fish, n.1
A Thief in the Night (1992) 382: My trap for crooks and cracksmen is a bottle of hocussed whiskey.at hocus, v.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 380: Holy smoke, how I hope we’ve landed one alive!at holy smoke!, excl.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 310: What with these new Rowton Houses, my beard, and my otherwise well-spent holiday, I hope to have quite a good autumn season before the erratic Raffles turns up in town.at Rowton Houses, n.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 317: God bless me if the brazen wench hasn’t squeezed into the wife’s kit!at kit, n.2
Thief in the Night (1992) 405: Come, Bunny, give me a leg up.at give someone a leg up (v.) under leg, n.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 329: ‘But they strangled her in her bed with her own pillow-case!’ [...] ‘They didn’t break in for that. They never thought of scragging her.’.at scrag, v.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 354: I shall simply sham champagne.at sham, v.2
A Thief in the Night (1992) 278: ‘Nice house?’ said Raffles [...] ‘Top shelf,’ said I. ‘You know the houses in Palace Gardens, don’t you?’.at top-shelf, adj.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 281: I’ll come just to show you the ropes, and I won’t take a penny-weight of the swag.at show (someone) the ropes (v.) under show, v.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 344: ‘It certainly is not necessary in my case,’ replied Nasmyth, still as stiff as a poker.at stiff as a poker (adj.) under stiff, adj.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 413: I remember going to the old place in Whitehall, years ago, and being shown round by one of the tip-top ’tecs.at tip-top, adj.
A Thief in the Night (1992) 409: Besides, after a whole night in your old haunts, Bunny, it’s only in order to wind up in Northumberland Avenue.at wind up, v.
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