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[UK] Bell’s Life in London Dec. in Fights for the Championship (1855) 103: Ward [...] has not the fault of being fond of lushing.
at lushing, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 142: The corianders foe the Dead ’Un having been found by Corinthians of the first order.
at coriander (seed), n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 144: A cavalcade of ‘swell drags’ [...] upon these were the patrician supporters.
at swell drag (n.) under swell, adj.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 165: He made the match [...] under the promise that they would supply ‘the needful’.
at needful, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 151: Burke, for an ‘old ’un’, who had contended in 17 prize battles [...] was remrkably well.
at old ’un (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 165: Ned [...] stood a great deal of the ‘rowdy’ himself.
at rowdy, n.
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 199: Thousands had to ‘pad the hoof’ in weariness and alarm.
at pad the hoof (v.) under pad, v.1
[UK] Bell’s Life in London in Fights for the Championship (1855) 234: So long as the merry month of May [...] has this month been on the carpet.
at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
[UK] (con. 1821) Fights for the Championship 66: A straight left-hander on his upper ivories that drew a cresh cork.
at draw a cork, v.1
[UK] (con. 1852) Fights for the Championship 249: He [...] reached Orme’s lef whisker-bed, but napped it heavily on the sore spot.
at whisker-bed, n.
[UK] (con. 1837) Fights for the Championship 357: the office was given that swift’s bellows were out of order.
at bellows, n.
[UK] (con. 1821) Fights for the Championship 65: Jobbing, nobbing, and pinking [...] then giving Gas a terrible belly-go-firster.
at belly-go-firster (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] (con. 1851) Fights for the Championship 233: Harry Orme, a tough bit of stuff[...] defeated Aaron Jones.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] Fights for the Championship 116: That town, despite the officiousness of the blues, reaped considerable benefit from the mill.
at blue, n.1
[UK] (con. 1824) Fights for the Championship 73: Spring drew Langan’s cork by a well delivered heavy one on their smelling-bottle.
at smelling-bottle, n.
[UK] (con. 1824) Fights for the Championship 70: Langan had but one aim — Spring’s breadbasket.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] (con. 1824) Fights for the Championship 95: The brummagem, though no counterfeit, was evidently fast on the wane.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] (con. 1827) Fights for the Championship 105: The Burgundy flowed freely from each [boxer].
at Burgundy, n.
[UK] (con. 1837) Fights for the Championship 359: Swift closed, and threw him a burster [...] he was almost senseless [Ibid.] 360: The Jew [...] was thrown a burster, and Swift looked at him as if all was all over.
at burster, n.1
[UK] (con. 1837) Fights for the Championship 356: Swift [...] planted left and right on the canister.
at canister, n.1
[UK] (con. 1809) Fights for the Championship 41: The carmine flowed to any amount.
at carmine, n.
[UK] (con. 1839) Fights for the Championship 146: The Deaf ’Un again coughed—His ‘cat’s meat’ was clearly out of trim.
at cat’s meat, n.
[UK] (con. 1808) Fights for the Championship 39: A severe blow [...] which made the claret flow most profusely.
at claret, n.
[UK] (con. 1820) Fights for the Championship 61: Oliver’s face was clareted all over.
at claret, v.
[UK] (con. 1827) Fights for the Championship 106: Their cocoa-nuts echoed again with the quick following blows.
at coconut, n.1
[UK] (con. 1850) Fights for the Championship 222: He was evidently playing the old soldier and reserving his strength.
at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
[UK] (con. 1811) Fights for the Championship 46: There were about 20,000 persons present, inclusding many Corinthians of the highest rank.
at corinthian, n.
[UK] Fights for the Championship 112: Carter was also in robust health, but his corporation partook a little too much of civic importance.
at corporation, n.
[UK] (con. 1839) Fights for the Championship 149: The honest Deaf ’un has all at once turned rogue; he has been bought and fought a cross.
at cross, n.1
[UK] (con. 1824) Fights for the Championship 94: Ward [...]me his determined antagonist with a slight tap on his victualling office.
at victualling department, n.
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