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Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 313: There’ll be high life below stairs with him in about two twists of a lamb’s tail.at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 313: There’ll be high life below stairs with him in about two twists of a lamb’s tail. Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 314: Ha! One single face left in all the world, and all the rest chattering ape-heads.at apehead (n.) under ape, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 62: I suppose [...] none of you chaps know the names of the fellows who got bailed up by young Hillyar this morning?at bail up, v.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 313: ‘Well! if this don’t bang wattle gum,’ began Gerty.at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 154: I’ll have your bingy; strike me blind as a moepork if I don’t have your bingy!at bingy, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 429: That b—h of a W.S. Lindsay’s Troubador.at bitch, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 43: We shan’t get through this Sunday without a blessed row, I know.at blessed, adj.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 334: The smiddy of a somewhat blockish blacksmith. [Ibid.] 354: A nature so low, so sensual, so selfish, so surrounded with a [...] shell of impenetrable blockishness.at blockish (adj.) under block, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 101: Here were five of these accursed bloodhounds [...] five policemen.at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 201: As soon as she hears me come in she comes down and has a blow up at me.at blow-up, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 59: When I was seven years old my mother [...] bolted.at bolt, v.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 101: My bonny, pad-clinking [...] George Street bucks! Good day.at buck, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 64: Pistol, the cutpurse, ruffling and bullying it.at bully, v.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 158: What with [...] all the hands on the burst at once, it was enough to make her anxious.at (go) on the burst under burst, n.2
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 186: I’ll not be kep’ busnacking here in the rain.at busnacking, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 86: Jints, you understand [...] none of your kag-mag and skewer bits.at cagmag, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 331: Any other carroty-haired, ’possum-headed, forty acre, post and rail son of a seacook.at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 3: He will [...] have ten thousand a year [...] He will be a catch for some one.at catch, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 18: Curious cattle, these convicts!at cattle, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 186: And with that end (as we used to say in those times) I ‘cheeked’ the detective.at cheek, v.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 102: Two Blacks and a Chinee seen him a-doing on it.at Chinee, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 15: A certain kind of young English gentleman, who has sailed too close to the wind at home, and who comes to the colony to be whitewashed.at sail close to the wind, v.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 270: Reuben would sometimes call him ‘old cock’.at old cock, n.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 262: Was I ever so great a blackguard as Parkins? No. I should have been cobbed in the hulks if I had been.at cop, v.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 156: More particular over their rations than any cornstalk cockatoo.at cornstalk, adj.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 226: Keeping a cove hanging about a crib as has been blow’d on.at crib, n.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 227: You’re crumby [...] but there’s not too much on it yet [...] you’ll never be what any man of taste would call fat.at crummy, adj.1
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 30: My falling asleep dog-tired at supper.at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 18: Fidledeedee about terrible rogues.at fiddledeedee!, excl.
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 187: Four men who had, to use a vulgar expression, ‘funked’ following the valiant scoundrel.at funk, v.2
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