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High Times and Hard Times (Sketches and Tales by George Washington Harris) choose

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[US] in G.W. Harris High Times 28: Each party should [...] treat: a quart of the good.
at good, n.
[US] in G.W. Harris High Times 45: He says Knoxville is 200 miles from each of the places above named. Now that’s hot!
at hot, adj.
[US] in G.W. Harris High Times 46: He lied a jassack to death in two hours!
at jassack, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 69: I’ll be durn’d, mister, if I don’t hate to stop a feller when he is a boltin his grub [...] but I be durn’d if you ain’t made a small mistake.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 70: We’ll be like two pints of red eye in one jug!
at red-eye, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 70: De great golly!
at golly!, excl.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 71: ‘I say, did that feller get a swing at your rear?’ ‘No, by gravy! he didn’t that.’.
at by gravy! (excl.) under gravy, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 67: They were as nice a pair of spectacles – no specimens – of the genus Hoozier, as you could wish to look at.
at hoosier, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘There’s Danger in Old Chairs!’ Weekly Nashville Union XIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 71: I say, did that feller get a swing at your rear?
at rear, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Playing Old Sledge for the President’ Nashville Union and American XXVIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 236: Seaward cut dirt as soon as that awful jack was turned.
at cut dirt (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Playing Old Sledge for the President’ Nashville Union and American XXVIII Oct. in Inge (1967) 232: Arter supper awhile I nosed round ontil I got inter a room whar I seed a lite.
at nose around (v.) under nose, v.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood Escapes Assassination’ N.Y. Atlas XXI July in Inge (1967) 128: Their laigs aint wuf a cuss.
at not worth a curse, phr.
[US] G.W. Harris in Inge High Times and Hard Times (1967) 132: Arter I got my baggage-room full, I sot down ag’in.
at baggage-room (n.) under baggage, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 139: Arter that feller fell in the ruver, I jist biled, tuck down the lane.
at boil, v.
[US] G.W. Harris High Times 152: Hit started yup agin an felt like ontu a terbacker wum a crawlin up my breakfus pipe.
at breakfast pipe (n.) under breakfast, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Chest Story’ Nashville Union and American XXIX June in Inge (1967) 120: She were runnin an oppersishun line to the chicken eater, in cahoote with a man powerful with pills and squts.
at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Chest Story’ Nashville Union and American XXIX June in Inge (1967) 124: Gin us a chaw terbacker.
at chewtobaccy, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 142: Durn his pot-headed soul!
at darn, v.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood at Bull’s Gap’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Nov. in Inge (1967) 144: Darnation! how they reaches forard towards better things.
at darnation!, excl.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood at Bull’s Gap’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Nov. in Inge (1967) 154: What the hell mistopher dus you mean by actin the bull in a bed-room, at midnite, an makin yer self a durnd fool.
at darned, adj.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Letter from Sut Lovingood’ Nashville Union and American XIX June in Inge (1967) 87: Now, Mister, dod durn me if I haint made all the apology necessary.
at dod, n.1
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 138: A passel ove doll-babys, bonnets, caps [...] an’ purty wimmen.
at doll baby (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Chest Story’ Nashville Union and American XXIX June in Inge (1967) 122: In jumped Gut Fatty in his shut tail.
at fatguts (n.) under fat, adj.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Letter from S---L, of Tennessee’ Nashville Union and American XXIX July in Inge (1967) 90: After softsoaping the two old spectacled gourd heads about their intelligence [...] he drew from his saddle bags a greasy copy of ‘Cobb’.
at gourd-head (n.) under gourd, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Letter from Sut Lovingood’ Nashville Union and American XIX June in Inge (1967) 87: I have seen dirtier, worse cooked, worse tasted, worse looking, and a h--l of a sight smaller breakfasts than this is several times.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 138: I hed suckseeded in raisin’ h--l generally.
at raise hell (v.) under hell, n.
[US] G.W. Harris in Inge High Times and Hard Times (1967) 119: I told you, George, that Sicily an her hoss, ole Clapshaw, warn’t agwine ter pull well in the same yoke.
at horse, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 138: Jehosefat! how he mizzled t’uther way.
at jehoshaphat!, excl.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood’s Adventures in New York’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Aug. in Inge (1967) 140: I split hit onter his nose, an’ two ove my ’nucks went inter each ove his red eyes.
at knuck, n.
[US] G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingoods Chest Story’ Nashville Union and American XXIX June in Inge (1967) 123: Oh Lordy!, Gus, love? we hev ruinated our sefs.
at lawdy!, excl.
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