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To the Bitter End choose

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[UK] M.E. Braddon To the Bitter End III 284: From the day we first met Lord Stanmore at a hunting breakfast at Stoneleigh, the business was settled. It was a ‘case,’ as you fast young people say.
at case, n.1
[UK] M.E. Braddon To the Bitter End I 264: If the locket’s lost, it’s lost, [...] and there’s no use in grizzling about it.
at grizzle, v.
[UK] M.E. Braddon To the Bitter End III 123: When the lucky digger was wont to ‘shout’—that is to say, pay the shot—for the refreshment of his comrades.
at shout, v.
[UK] M.E. Braddon To the Bitter End 229: Lor a-mussy, sir, I wish I were a better hand at that sort o’ work.
at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
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