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[US] O. Wilde letter Mar. in Holland Complete Letters (2000) 560: I’d sooner be rented all day, than have you bitter, unjust and horrid – horrid –.
at rent, v.
[US] O. Wilde letter Jan.–Mar. in Holland Complete Letters (2000) 720: I stated that [...] I would readily consent to be ‘blackmailed by every renter in London’.
at renter, n.
[US] O. Wilde letter 11 May in Holland Complete Letters 1066: Bosie [...] is devoted to dreadful little ruffian aged fourteen [...] every time he goes home with Bosie he tries to rent him.
at rent, v.
[US] J. London letter 30 Apr. in Letters (1966) 35: He spent 48 straight hours with me a couple of days before he went.
at straight, adv.
[US] O. Wilde letter [late Mar.] in Holland Complete Letters (2000) 1177: Alex [...] saw me with a beautiful boy in grey velvet – half rough, all Hylas.
at rough trade, n.
[US] in J. London Letters I (1988) 249: Will be unable to foregather with you in L.A .
at L.A., n.
[US] in J. London Letters (1966) 275: I have to get down on my hambones and beg forgiveness.
at hambone, n.3
[US] J. London letter 25 June in Letters (1966) 425: I have no patience with fly-by-night philosophers such as Bergson.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[US] J. London letter 23 Sept. in Letters (1966) 430: All I can say is that he is a weak-brother, a sob-brother .
at sob brother (n.) under sob, n.1
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