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Guy Livingstone choose

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[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 72: Livingstone, if you begin back-handing already, you’ll never be able to hold that great raking chestnut I saw your groom leading.
at back-hand, v.1
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 4: The son was Brummagem to the back-bone.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 63: So one glass of cognac neat, as a chasse (to more things than good claret).
at chasse, n.
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 49: I don’t see why you should have muffed that shot.
at muff, v.1
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone (1858) 43: Constance Brandon and Flora Bellasys—quite the two best things out.
at out, adv.2
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 84: The third is a teaser – an ugly black bullfinch with a ditch on the landing side.
at teaser, n.2
[UK] G. Lawrence Guy Livingstone 345: Whisht, whisht, I tell ye, and keep a quiet tongue.
at whisht!, excl.
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