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The Cautious Amorist choose

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[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 74: For all your talk, you’ll admit there’s aggravation havin’ a wench about your eye all day and no proper use made of her.
at aggravation, n.2
[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 173: What the pair of you needs is a fair go face to face will ease your hearts an’ feelin’s.
at fair go, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 2: The purser’s voice went up, distinct with horrified conviction: ‘Jesus wept! – Into us!’.
at Jesus wept!, excl.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 163: He’ll be between this and a pig’s whisper if you ask my opinion.
at in a pig’s whisper (adv.) under pig’s whisper, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 166: The idiot’s gone ratty over you.
at ratty, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist 173: ‘You damned wowser,’ yelled Carrol.
at wowser, n.1
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