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Eli Perkins: His Sayings and Doings choose

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[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 116: Both [...] go sliding slam bang against people.
at slam-bang, adv.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 12: That first glass of wine be blowed.
at be-blowed!, excl.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 162: He must have ‘buzzed’ her for an hour steady.
at buzz, v.1
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 57: Nuf sed, young woman.
at nuff ced, phr.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 56: I’m jes reddy to cruise ’round with pretty, gallus-lookin’ gals any time.
at cruise, v.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 57: I preyed ’round 96 rumsellers and into 180 saloons – puttin’ down whiskey and beer.
at put down, v.1
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 119: I’ve got a span of fast mares in New York that can ‘dust’ anything you see here.
at dust, v.2
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 111: Half a dozen of Pinkerton’s men had ‘bit the dust’ hunting him down.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 56: I’m jes reddy to cruise ’round with pretty, gallus-lookin’ gals any time.
at gallows, adj.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 96: Great guns, Colonel, there was $20 in that roll.
at great guns! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 127: A rumseller, whom I will call Hi Church, because he was ‘high’ most of the time.
at high, adj.1
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 69: Quietly remove your amber kids.
at kid, n.3
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 53: How they can show off their Biblical knowledge and bug-and-spiderology!
at -ology, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 111: Half a dozen of Pinkerton’s men had ‘bit the dust’ hunting him down.
at Pink, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 107: Oh, Sambo!
at sambo, n.1
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 137: The ‘spooniest’ young people saunter over to [...] the double seats in Congress Spring Park.
at spoony, adj.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins 137: Gentlemen in ‘swallow tails’.
at swallow tail, n.
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