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‘“Frisco Kid’s” Story’ Complete Short Stories (1993) 6: Do I know w’ere dey is? Yer jest bet I do [...] wot der yer tink I am? A cheap guy?at guy, n.1
‘“Frisco Kid’s” Story’ Complete Short Stories (1993) 6: Do I know w’ere dey is? Yer jest bet I do [...] wot der yer tink I am? A cheap guy? ‘A Thousand Deaths’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 77: Leaving me to the care of the blackies, he fell to revising the notes he had made on my resuscitation.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
‘In a Far Country’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 212: ‘Sufferin’ cracky!’ cried another of the party. ‘No whites?’.at cracky!, excl.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 690: The anaemic Cerberus grinned when I took the elevator. ‘Get the bounce, eh?’.at get the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
‘Odyssey of the North’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 233: You see, when the ‘breeds’ rose under Reil the full-bloods kept the peace.at breed, n.
‘Odyssey of the North’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 242: Guess it’s all day with Axel Gunderson and the woman.at all day (n.) under day, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 696: ‘Give ’em a spiel [...] G’wan,’ he urged, ‘Give ’m a ghost story. The mugs’ll take it.’.at ghost-story (n.) under ghost, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 693: ‘I am a free downtrodden American citizen, and no man shall say my time is his.’ ‘Save John Law,’ he chuckled.at John Law (n.) under john, n.1
‘Dutch Courage’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 451: Some duffer’s got ahead of us. We’ve been scooped, that’s all!at scoop, v.
‘Dutch Courage’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 457: No Lafee ever showed the white feather yet.at show the (white) feather (v.) under show, v.
‘Odyssey of the North’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 235: An old Shylock of a Russian trader, who had dogs to kill.at shylock, n.
‘Odyssey of the North’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 239: ‘It’s only a “hunch,” Kid,’ he said; ‘but I think it’s straight.’.at straight, adj.1
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 695: ‘And how’s Slim?’ ‘Bum. Bulls is horstile.’.at bum, adj.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 688: I pray the the way to the sanctum sanctorum, to the Most High Cockalorum.at high cockalorum, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 694: I had intended to slip a fiver into his hand, but for all his surprise, he was too quick for me. ‘Aw, keep yer dirt,’ he snarled.at dirt, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 688: The drag, my dear fellow, is merely the street.at drag, n.1
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 693: No matter where you are, wire me and I’ll send the ducats to come on at once.at ducat, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 694: I had intended to slip a fiver into his hand.at fiver, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 689: Leave go, an’ I’ll glide an’ see.at glide, v.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 695: Come on, you mugs! [...] Throw yer feet!at mug, n.1
‘Bald-face’ in Aegis (Oakland High School) 6 Sept. 1–2: At the bottom was a broad, open flat, quarter of a mile to timber and full of nigger-heads.at niggerhead, n.1
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 693: ‘Where do you work, you pencil-pusher?’ he asked.at pencil-pusher, n.
‘Local Color’ Complete Short Stories (1993) I 693: Come now! [...] No shenanagin! The Cowbell must have you. It hungers for you.at shenanigan, n.
‘Bald-face’ in Aegis (Oakland High School) 6 Sept. 1–2: Next thing I knows — whop, I comes up against something in a tangle of wild blackberry bushes.at whop!, excl.
‘Rods and Gunnels’ in Bookman XV (Aug.) 541–44: Chi Slim, as his ‘monica’ denotes, hailed from Chicago.at Chi, n.
‘Rods and Gunnels’ in Bookman XV Aug. 541–44: It is as a ‘comet,’ one who has served his ‘road-kid’ and ‘gay-cat’ apprenticeship, that I shall speak.at comet, n.
‘Rods & Gunnels’ Bookman XV (Aug.) 541–44: Chi Slim, as his ‘monica’ denotes, hailed from Chicago.at monniker, n.
‘Rods and Gunnels’ in Bookman XV (Aug.) 541–44: These are the canaille and bourgeoisie, these ‘gay cats,’ ‘bindle stiffs,’ ‘stake men,’ ‘shovel bums,’ ‘mushers,’ ‘fakirs’ and ‘stew bums.’.at musher, n.1
‘Rods and Gunnels’ in Bookman XV Aug. 541–44: To ‘ride the rods’ requires nerve, and skill, and daring.at ride the rods (v.) under ride, v.
‘Rods and Gunnels’ in Bookman XV (Aug.) 541–44: By the way, there is but one rod, and it occurs on passenger trains. Idiomatically, it becomes ‘rods.’.at rod, n.
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