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[UK] Lytton Caxtons I Pt iv 167: ‘It’s Lombard Street to a China orange,’ quoth uncle Jack. ‘Are the odds in favour of fame against failure so great?’ [...] answered my father.
at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
[UK] Lytton Caxtons II Pt xiii 324: Bolding had lived a year and a half at Oxford as a ‘fast man;’ so ‘fast’ had he lived that there was scarcely a tradesman at Oxford into whose books he had not contrived to run.
at fast, adj.1
[UK] Lytton Caxtons I Pt iii 127: A worthless, obscure, jolter-headed booby.
at jolter-headed, adj.
[UK] Lytton Caxtons III Pt xviii 278: No woman could have been more flattered and courted by Lotharios and lady-killers than Lady Castelton has been.
at lothario, n.
[UK] Lytton Caxtons II Pt xiii 325: He [...] had replied with conscious pride, ‘That he could tool a coach!’.
at tool, v.
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