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The Girl in the Brown Habit choose

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[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 5: A fellow may as well have a bit of a fling first, till he spots the right figure, and is prepared to settle down as a Benedict.
at benedict, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 15: Nags that are practically untried [...] makes a fellow long for a real good bit of stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit II 131: I looked at her. ‘That is a very ‘brassy’ sentiment,’ I said significantly.
at brassy, adj.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit III 74: ‘Can’t you leave a fellow to manage his affairs in his own way, and give up croaking?’ [...] ‘I spoke only for your good,’ I said stiffly, ‘but in future I promise to “croak” no more.’.
at croak, v.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 177: My immediate follower had become an imperial crowner, and his long limbs were measuring mother earth.
at crowner, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 31: One can easily understand a man turning a trifle crusty, when he looks on and sees his best gates smashed to atoms.
at crusty, adj.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 46: The devil he did!
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit III 95: ‘You are awfully down upon me,’ he stammered.
at down (up)on under down, adv.2
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit II 57: I too bit the dust.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 15: It makes a fellow long for a real good bit of stuff.
at fellow, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit III 228: Fiddle-de-dee! That was an idiotic idea!
at fiddledeedee!, excl.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 85: My surprise was intense at the number of shirkers. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I could not have believed so many ‘funksticks’ existed in one field.
at funker, n.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 15: I suppose our ‘gees’ will jump all right.
at gee, n.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 58: Hulloa, my man! that’s a pretty smart one you’ve got there.
at hello!, excl.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit III 37: Hoity-toity! Improve, indeed! What an idea!
at hoity-toity!, excl.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit II 162: There, the murder is out.
at murder, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 187: I told my missus to drop a card on you to-day. You see [...] we hunting men have not much time for that sort of thing; and paste-board leaving, is quite out of my line.
at pasteboard, n.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 99: ‘Ah! you puss!’ said he, with an indulgent smile.
at puss, n.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 77: By Jingo! she’s a regular ripper, and no mistake.
at ripper, n.1
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit I 11: ‘Ripping!’ responded Dicky, laconically, but in tones of equal commendation.
at ripping!, excl.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit III 74: It’s the same old twaddling story that I have heard dinned into my ears every day for the last month.
at twaddle, v.
[UK] M.E. Kennard Girl in the Brown Habit II 13: Now don’t howl and cry your eyes out. The water-work business only annoys me.
at waterworks, n.
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