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Limits and Renewals choose

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[UK] Kipling ‘The Woman in His Life’ Limits and Renewals (1932) 50: It’s [i.e. a dog] made a mess in the corner.
at mess, n.2
[UK] Kipling Limits and Renewals (1932) 367: ‘Did it cure him?’ I asked. ‘Ab-so-bally-lutely,’ said Keede.
at absoballylutely, adv.
[UK] Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 356: He had kept himself going on rum sometimes, and was woozy when the pinch came.
at woozy, adj.
[UK] Kipling Limits and Renewals 186: That’s how it was till the Squadron returned. [...] The banzai-parties came ashore, all hats and hosannas like a tax-payers’ treat.
at banzai, n.
[UK] Kipling ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ in Limits and Renewals 20: ‘If I pull the string of the shower-bath in the papers,’ he said, ‘Castorley might go off his verray parfit gentil nut.’.
at pull the string (of the shower bath) (v.) under pull, v.
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