1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 215: ‘He is dead, poor fellow,’ said Conway, gravely. ‘I expected to have met you at his funeral.’ ‘So I should have been [...] but as in seeing old Paul “tucked in” they might have nabbed me.’.at tucked away, adj.
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 166: Paul Kellett’s ruined – cleaned out – sold in the Encumbered what-d’ye-call-’ems.at what-d’you-call-it, n.
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 162: Every fellow [...] can tell you how he was squared, for it’s all on the ‘cross’ with them, Grog., just as in the ring.at on the cross under cross, n.1
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 224: There, ‘liquor up,’ as the Yankees say, cried Davis, passing the decanter towards him.at liquor-up, n.
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 217: If it were so legs would have no existence, and all that classic vocabulary of ‘nobbling,’ ‘squaring,’ and so on, have no dictionary.at nobble, v.2
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 216: Wasn’t I in for a pot on Blue Nose, when Mope ran a dead heat with Balshazzar.at pot, n.1
1859 C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 166: Ain’t there any fellows about would give you a name to a bit of stiff, at thirty-one days’ date?at bit of stiff (n.) under stiff, n.1