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Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit choose

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[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 284: Those Canucks may have big potato bugs; I don’t doubt it.
at Canuck, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 284: You are a consarned old Nova Scotia liar!
at consarned, adj.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 285: By ginger, he looked mighty pale!
at by ginger! (excl.) under ginger, n.3
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 295: I’m a howler from the prairies of the West [...] I’m chain-lightning; if I ain’t, may I be blessed.
at howler, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 217: By Jinks! it’s rotten!
at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 295: I’m a howler from the prairies of the West [...] I’m chain-lightning; if I ain’t, may I be blessed.
at chain lightning (n.) under lightning, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 278: He wasn’t anything. He was – well, he was just a mugwump!
at mugwump, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 226: Dr. Munson [...] was always ‘too previous.’ He would glance at a patient and pompously sum up his case in an instant, often making mistakes.
at previous, adj.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 296: I’m the celebrated slugger, I’m the beast.
at slugger, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 285: She broke it all to smash.
at all to smash (adv.) under smash, n.1
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 295: I’m a howler from the prairies of the West [...] I’m chain-lightning; if I ain’t, may I be blessed. I’m the snorter of the boundless perarie [sic].
at snorter, n.2
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 265: I jess know she ent ’soshiatin’ wid no sich wite trash like you is!
at white trash, n.
[US] M.D. Landon Eli Perkins: Thirty Years of Wit 142: This made Sinon mad, and he twitted Aristippus with having no children.
at twit, v.
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