1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 106: Giving me a grasp of the hand and a cordial ‘How dy’ge, stranger?’.at how are you going?, phr.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 124: Government has made at least a baker’s dozen of the same sort.at baker’s dozen, n.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 94: Hurt! Blisters and blamenation, so ye is!at blamenation!, excl.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 94: Ye doan’t s’pose Tom’s a secesh? a dinged, rottin-souled, blue-blasted, son uv a Rebel, does ye?at blue-blasted (adj.) under blue, adj.5
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 88: Little progress had been made in getting the sentinel boozy.at boozy, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 55: The ‘Commercial Hotel’ of Nashville is the filthiest, buggiest house [...] I ever passed a night in.at buggy, adj.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 175: ‘Where are you going with that big canteen?’ ‘Ter git some bust-head, giniral’.at busthead (n.) under bust, v.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 108: I’s wuckd till ’bout a hour by sun, an’ hed got the cart chock heapin’ with pine knots an’ timber. [Ibid.] 160: The jail wus chock-heapin’, so they put me inter a tent under guard.at chockablock, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 19: Dy’ge know whot Government ’ll pay fur a right smart chunk uv mar?at chunk, n.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 68: This idea of universal suffrage – making a small sovereign of every ignorant clophopper [...] is played out.at clodhopper, n.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 187: He reckoned ‘thet such ruin [...] fur a coonskin a gallon, was purty tollable sort o’ ruin’.at coonskin, n.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 94: I doan’t see no way out o’ this but gwine ter thet durned hide-bound secesher’s.at darned, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 193: He journeys on the hurricane deck of a mule.at hurricane deck, n.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 94: Ye doan’t ’spose Tom’s a secesh? a dinged, rottin-souled, blue-blasted, son uv a Rebel, does ye?at dinged, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 151: We hain’t nothin’ ’cept common doin’s, but we’s ’nuff o’ them.at doings, n.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 108: I’s bin on the Big Drink.at big drink (n.) under drink, n.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 75: That’s where you’ll get, old man, if you don’t give up your everlasting lying.at everlasting, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 185: They obtain plentiful supplies of [...] ‘Tangle-foot,’ ‘Blue-ruin,’ ‘Red-eye.’.at tangle-foot, n.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 130: I come ter de place whar dey fit so two days arterwuds – dey call it ‘Hell’s-half-acre.’.at hell’s half acre (n.) under hell, n.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 109: Tom, you are a trump – the very Jack of clubs.at jack of clubs (n.) under jack, n.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 99: I’ll lamm ye till yer whiter nur Squire Robins’ old mar.at lam, v.1
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 112: ‘Nigger kentries, Mr. Midnight,’ replied Tom promptly.at midnight, adj.
1864 ‘Edmund Kirke’ Down in Tennessee 186: We shall be nation dry ’fore winter’s over.at nation, adv.