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Diversity of Creatures choose

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[UK] Kipling ‘As Easy as A.B.C.’ in Diversity of Creatures (1917) 33: ‘We’re a nice lot to flap about governing the Planet,’ De Forest laughed .
at flap, v.4
[UK] Kipling ‘As Easy as A.B.C.’ in Diversity of Creatures (1917) 11: There’s a nice little spit-kitten for you!
at spit-cat (n.) under spit, n.3
[UK] Kipling ‘The Edge of the Evening’ Diversity of Creatures (1917) 287: He was long on Kings. And Continental crises.
at long on (adj.) under long, adj.
[UK] Kipling ‘Friendly Brook’ in Diversity of Creatures (1917) 62: He won’t tech no publican’s hogwash acrost the bar.
at hogwash, n.
[UK] Kipling ‘Friendly Brook’ in Diversity of Creatures (1917) 59: ‘It spiled my day to think of it,’ he ses, when we was eatin’ our pieces.
at piece, n.
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