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People of the Abyss 59: I said to myself, ‘It’s all up with you, Jack my boy; so here goes.’ An’ I jumped over after him, my mind made up to drown us both.at all up with under all up, adj.
People of the Abyss 59: I said to myself, ‘It’s all up with you, Jack my boy; so here goes.’ An’ I jumped over after him, my mind made up to drown us both. People of the Abyss iv: There was my mar, she was enough, a-bangin’ the kids about an’ makin’ the ole man mis’rable when ’e come ’ome.at bang, v.1
People of the Abyss 101: ‘To carry the banner’ means to walk the streets all night; and I, with the figurative emblem hoisted, went out to see what I could see.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
People of the Abyss 151: And ‘bean-feasters’ from London, dashing past in coaches, cheered and jeered and shouted insulting things after us.at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
People of the Abyss 97: The incurables and the obstreperous were given a dose of ‘black jack’ or the ‘white potion,’ and sent over the divide.at black jack, n.3
People of the Abyss 45: ‘I’ll do as I like, blankety, blank, blank!’ ‘I’d like ter see yer, blankety, blank, blank!’.at blankety-blank, phr.
People of the Abyss 92: W’en they’re in the spike [they] can eat my share o’ skilly as well as their bleedin’ own.at bleeding, adj.
People of the Abyss 123: The base of the Nelson Column was triple-fringed with bluejackets.at bluejacket, n.
People of the Abyss 270: It is sheer bosh and nonsense to preach thrift to the 1,800,000 London workers who are divided into families which have a total income of less than 21s. per week.at bosh, n.1
People of the Abyss 10: The brogans, or brogues, were quite a problem. [...] it was only after a prolonged pounding of the uppers with my fists that I was able to get my feet into them at all.at brogan, n.
People of the Abyss 69: And, on asking him what the ‘spike’ was, he answered, ‘The casual ward. It’s a cant word, you know’.at cant, n.1
People of the Abyss 81: I found that the smallpox was the cause of their being ‘on the doss,’ which means on the tramp.at on the doss under doss, n.1
People of the Abyss 163: To pound one’s wife to a jelly and break a few of her ribs is a trivial offence compared with sleeping out under the naked stars because one has not the price of a doss.at doss, n.1
People of the Abyss 92: ‘There’s mugs never go out of Kent,’ spoke a second voice, ‘they live bloomin’ fat all along.’.at fat, adv.
People of the Abyss 56: Don’t funk; you can do it.at funk, v.2
People of the Abyss 32: ‘Garn!’ he cried, with a playful shove of his fist on my shoulder. ‘Wot’s yer game, eh?’.at game, n.
People of the Abyss 169: They had surrounded one of their number, a pleasant-faced man of thirty, and were giving it to him rather heatedly.at give it to, v.
People of the Abyss 92: ‘I come through Kent,’ went on the first voice, still more angrily, ‘an’ Gawd blimey if I see any tommy.’.at gorblimey!, excl.
People of the Abyss 11: The man in corduroy and dirty neckerchief no longer addressed me as ‘sir’ or ‘governor.’ It was ‘mate’ now.at governor, n.
People of the Abyss 67: And, naturally, their guts a-reek with pavement offal, they talked of bloody revolution.at gut, n.
People of the Abyss 205: As a vagrant in the ‘Hobo’ of a California jail, I have been served better food and drink than the London workman receives in his coffee-houses.at hobo, n.
People of the Abyss 99: ‘Come on, let’s sling it,’ I said to one of my mates, pointing toward the open gate.at sling one’s hook, v.
People of the Abyss ix: The agreement is that kipping, or dossing, or sleeping, is the hardest problem they have to face.at kip, v.
People of the Abyss 134: Lord lumme, look a’ that.at lumme!, excl.
People of the Abyss 157: I descended to the semi- subterranean kitchen, and talked with her and her old man.at old man, n.
People of the Abyss 141: From that day he was a marked man, and every day, for ten years and more, he was ‘paid off’ for what he had done.at pay off, v.
People of the Abyss 97: They were all agreed that the poor person [...] who in the Infirmary gave too much trouble or was in a bad way, was ‘polished off.’.at polish off, v.
People of the Abyss 108: This was ‘the peg.’ And by ‘the peg,’ in the argot, is meant the place where a free meal may be obtained.at peg, n.1
People of the Abyss 8: This he did with the palpable intention of letting me know that he had ‘piped my lay’.at pipe, v.3
People of the Abyss 32: I’ll tell you wot I’d get on four poun’ ten — a missus rowin’, kids squallin’.at row, v.1
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