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Sixteen String Jack I vi: Of all the rummy chaps I ever did see, that dot-and-carry-one-of-old poetry is the queerest; he’s as green as a babby, and as deep as a wooden spoon.at dot and carry one, n.
Sixteen String Jack I vi: Of all the rummy chaps I ever did see, that dot-and-carry-one-of-old poetry is the queerest; he’s as green as a babby, and as deep as a wooden spoon. Sixteen String Jack I iii: I [...] wish him to find everything in apple-pie order.at apple-pie order, n.
Sixteen String Jack I vi: The family’s gone to downy nap this half-hour.— Why don’t the captain give the signal.at do the downy (v.) under downy, n.2
Sixteen String Jack II iv: Tom Bullock, the downiest cove, the leary one that never goes to sleep.at downy cove (n.) under downy, adj.1
Sixteen String Jack I iii: My half-mad foreman was the ruin of you, by infusing his fustian into your thick head.at fustian, n.
Sixteen String Jack II i: You’re a dear, good nunky.at nunky, n.
Sixteen String Jack I vi: Stash your patter and come along!at patter, n.
Sixteen String Jack II iv: (Showing pistols) I came in with my persuader.at persuader, n.
Sixteen String Jack II iv: jer.: I’ve a spec to-night: Sixteen String-Jack and his pals are likely to be here; we must watch their proceedings, and then— bob: What, rob them of their plunder? jer.: No, inform against them.at spec, n.
Sixteen String Jack I iii: The dashy, splashy, leary little stringer, / Mounted his roan, and took the road— Phililoo!at splashy, adj.
Sixteen String Jack III v: He’s booked for the woody.at woody, n.1
Sixteen-String Jack 150: Vell done old dot-an’-carry-one, the werry cove I’ve been praying for.at dot and carry one, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 126: The morning may dawn, as sure as you’re born, / Will find us dancing alone.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
Sixteen-String Jack 108: The plant’s as safe as the Bank, the Bank! I meant Newgate, for once in the stone jug, it’s mighty good care they take not to part with you there.at Bank, the, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 73: Being so unequally matched, I disdained to use my barkers.at barker, n.1
Sixteen-String Jack 64: What a nobby out-an-out blade you must be to wake up the big wigs already.at blade, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 83: If I ain’t blastedly mistaken, he’ll wake up with a prime pair of mahogany-framed eyes in the morning, eh?at blastedly (adv.) under blasted, adj.1
Sixteen-String Jack 114: Go to blazes with you!at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 150: Put up your bleeder, Sir; I arnt got a fancy for knives no how, they is so very cutting.at bleeder, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 79: Oh, Lor’, if you’d heard my blessed apologies—like nothing but the Arabian Nights, so help m’ tater!—jist a thousand and one rolled into one.at blessed, adj.
Sixteen-String Jack 123: My blockhead of a fellow there seems to clash in angry opposition.at blockhead, n.1
Sixteen-String Jack 367: Are the bloodhounds of the law again upon my track?at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
Sixteen-String Jack 153: Farewell my blooming cauliflower!at blooming, adj.1
Sixteen-String Jack 207: ‘How fares business with you, Kit?’ [...] ‘Oh! bobbish-like; me and my friend Rann, have been doing pretty tidy pickings.’.at bobbish, adj.
Sixteen-String Jack 236: Now then, my boy, let’s make a bolt of it.at bolt, n.1
Sixteen-String Jack 116: ‘How know you we are discovered?’ ‘How know I? Heard you not that signal? By all that’s good, we are caged, booked, lost.’.at booked, adj.1
Sixteen-String Jack 122: I hooked it; and, calling in the Charlies, why we fetched ’em on like old boots, sir, at the very fact.at like old boots (adv.) under boot, n.2
Sixteen-String Jack 140: An out and out boozing ken where Long Jemmy and rest on us have had many a roaring night.at bousing-ken, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 206: How my bowman he snivelled away, o, / How he broke off all the dubbs in the whitt, / And chivied the darbies in twain, o.at bowman, n.
Sixteen-String Jack 248: Here be a purse well filled wi’ brass.at brass, n.1
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