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Prelude to a Certain Midnight choose

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[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. iv: Drop it already! [...] I should throw out a poor woman into the streets?
at already, adv.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. ix: There was something sympathetic about the Battleaxe, [...] Many people liked her in spite of her savage tongue and belligerent manner.
at battle-axe, n.1
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. ii: Those bright brown eyes that used to be so steady and candid against the baby-blue whites.
at baby-blues (n.) under baby, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. i: She had regular features, an excellent figure — she called it a ‘good bod’.
at bod, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. x: The Tiger Fitzpatrick [...] muttered: ‘I’m broke to the wide.’.
at broke to the wide (adj.) under broke, adj.1
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. v: By him a pound is already important.
at by, prep.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. i: Her name was Catchy. [...] It is a fact that she was extremely attractive in those days, although her beauty was of the commonplace sort.
at catchy, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight 69: Chicken Eyes had a weakness for a young lady called Cigarette.
at chicken eyes (n.) under chicken, n.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. vi: A flat-footed old police constable who tramped a local beat.
at flat-footed, adj.3
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. 11: What do you say we go nibble a drink?
at nibble, v.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. 13: Some old hag, paralytic-drunk on Red Biddy.
at paralytic, adv.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. 13: this sort of nonsense with dog-whips, or whatever it might be [...] Your Queer fellow has his fun [...] with the connivance and the assistance of what a normal person would call the ‘victim’. The willing victim.
at queer, adj.
[UK] G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. x: Torture babies to death and you only get six months in quod!
at quod, n.
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