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The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. choose

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[UK] W. Scott letter 6 Aug. in Lockhart Life (1896) 46/1: Yesterday was St. James’s Fair [...] There was a great show of black cattle – I mean of ministers.
at black cattle (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Skene in Lockhart Scott (1839) II. 265: This amusement of burning the water [...] was not without some hazard.
at burn the water (v.) under burn, v.
[UK] W. Scott letter 20 Oct. in Lockhart Life (1896) 248/1: The children’s garden is in apple-pie order .
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] W. Scott letter 12 Jan. in Lockhart Life (1896) 232/2: The book has gone off here very bobbishly .
at bobbishly, adj.
[UK] W. Scott letter 19 Jan. in Lockhart Life (1896) 306/2: We are much nearer neighbours, and within a whoop and a holla.
at whoop and a holler, n.
[UK] W. Scott letter 1 Apr. in Lockhart Life (1896) 394/2: I trust you will find me pretty bobbish .
at bobbish, adj.
[UK] W. Scott letter 15 Apr. in Lockhart Life (1896) 394/1: I hesitate a little about Raeburn... [he] has twice already made a very chowder-headed person of me .
at chowder-headed (adj.) under chowder-head, n.
[UK] W. Scott letter 21 Apr. in Lockhart Life (1896) 447/2: Wish the veteran joy of his entrance into the band of benedicts .
at benedict, n.
[UK] W. Scott letter 3 Aug. in Lockhart Life (1896) 561/1: The habit of the more youthful Pats and Patesses is decent and comely .
at patess, n.
[UK] W. Scott letter 12 May in Lockhart Life (1896) 622/2: A great relief from the black dog which would have worried me at home .
at black dog, n.2
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