1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 186: I shall marry the fair Teresa. Simple as tumbling off a house.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 190: Skipper’s a bit of a methody.at bit of (a), n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 287: By Jove! Skipper, we’ve saved our bacon.at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: ‘Out, you blitherer,’ he shouted, ‘and save your mangy life.’.at blitherer, n.1
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 119: The Coast nigger hereabouts has got a fancy that any ship on the beach is cumshaw for himself.at cumshaw, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 284: ‘Now, you two Dagos,’ he said to the Portuguese.at dago, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 210: What does he want to go ashore for at a one-eyed hole like this?at one-eyed, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 135: We shall want very clear heads [...] and I’m not going to fuddle mine.at fuddle, v.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 186: Don’t blame you for coming ‘heeled,’ boss. Guess a gun sometimes chips in handy round here.at heeled, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 143: ‘Hullo,’ said Sheriff, ‘what’s that mean?’.at hello!, excl.1
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 286: If he’d talked, he’d have got the straight kick-out from the owners.at kickout, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: ‘Out, you blitherer,’ he shouted, ‘and save your mangy life.’.at mangy, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 190: Skipper’s a bit of a methody.at Methody, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 187: If you can—well—so contrive that he doesn’t land at the other side, it means you are set up for life.at other side (n.) under other, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Adventures of Captain Kettle 191: He’s some sort of a big bug [...] inquiring into the organization of those Pat-lander rebels.at Patlander (n.) under Pat, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 109: He threw himself down on the warm white sand [...] ‘You are a decent old puddle,’ he murmured.at puddle, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: If any of you rats of men shove your way down here [...] before all the skirt is ferried across, you’ll get knocked on the head.at skirt, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 227: ‘Very well. Den we shall spiflicate you till you do.’ [...] ‘I wonder what spiflication is,’ mused Kettle.at spiflicate, v.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 144: Don’t throw up the sponge until someone else does it for you.at chuck up the sponge (v.) under sponge, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 205: She means square biz.at square business (n.) under square, adj.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 189: They get amongst people blacker than themselves, always try to ignore their lick of the tar-brush.at touch of the tarbrush under tarbrush, n.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 193: It’s as legally binding as if the Archbishop of Canterbury tied the knot.at tie the knot (v.) under tie, v.
1899 C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 297: You go and do your whack at getting the people off that packet.at whack, n.1