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Two Years Ago II 261: As sure as you live, Sir, [...] if you won’t talk honest prose, I won’t pay for the brandy and water.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
Two Years Ago II 261: As sure as you live, Sir, [...] if you won’t talk honest prose, I won’t pay for the brandy and water. Two Years Ago I 6: There’s Jack at it again! making poetry, I’ll bet my head to a China orange.at bet one’s head to a China orange (v.) under bet, v.
Two Years Ago I 116: None but blue-jackets allowed on the beach!at bluejacket, n.
Two Years Ago I 16: Here’s a good riddance [...] Cut his stick and walked his chalks.at walk one’s chalks (v.) under chalks, n.
Two Years Ago I 5: Why must he wait to smoke his cigar after breakfast? Couldn’t he have had it in the trap, the blessed old chimney that he is?at chimney, n.
Two Years Ago III 201: Mary lived in her own room, her father in his counting-house, or his ‘den’.at den, n.
Two Years Ago I 94: Ah! a ’Stralian digger, by the beard of him, and his red jersey.at digger, n.1
Two Years Ago xv: Decay be hanged! There’s life in the old dog yet, Sir!at old dog, n.
Two Years Ago I 198: ‘Cool fish,’ thought the customer.at fish, n.1
Two Years Ago I 172: Scoutbush clung to any superior man who would take notice of him, and not treat him as the fribble which he seemed.at fribble, n.
Two Years Ago II 27: I ought to have told you of that doctor [...] but rattle-pate as I am, I forgot all about it.at rattle-head, n.
Two Years Ago II 53: Her husband snatches it off, puts it on his own mop.at mop, n.1
Two Years Ago III 203: Seemed, Sir just like my nevy’s wife’s brother.at nevvy, n.
Two Years Ago I 117: All which is required to cast out the devil is a smattering of the ’ologies.at -ology, n.
Two Years Ago I 118: A terrible hard-plucked one [...] but, behanged if I don’t think he has a thirty-two pound shot under his ribs instead of a heart.at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
Two Years Ago I 105: Lend me a couple of sheets of paper and two queen’s-heads.at queen’s head (n.) under queen, n.
Two Years Ago I 96: He [...] mixed him a stiff glass of brandy-and-water.at stiff, adj.
Two Years Ago I 27: ‘He’s [...] dressed in the distinguished foreigner style, with lavender kid-gloves and French boots.’ ‘Just like a swell pickpocket.’.at swell, adj.
Two Years Ago I 194: I never told you of it, old pill and potion, for fear of a swingeing bill.at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
Two Years Ago II 85: On the first hint of disease, pack up your traps and your good lady, and go and live in the watch-house across the river.at traps, n.1
Two Years Ago I 113: I’ve had the cholera twice, and yellow-jack besides.at yellow jack (n.) under yellow, adj.
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