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A Hasty Bunch choose

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[US] R. McAlmon Hasty Bunch 237: They’d go so far and no further and then [...] say that maybe they’d come across another night.
at come across, v.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘The Fast Girl’ in A Hasty Bunch 133: Don’t you kiss me, you animal.
at animal, n.1
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Abrupt Decision’ in A Hasty Bunch 148: I’ll bet you let Bill O’Brien put the blocks to you.
at put the blocks to (v.) under block, n.1
[US] R. McAlmon ‘The Baby of the Family’ in A Hasty Bunch 77: No siree, I’m going swimming.
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘A Vacation’s Job’ in A Hasty Bunch 187: He may be getting too much bumping from that widow Brown he knows.
at bump, v.1
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Backslider’ in A Hasty Bunch 4: When he wasn’t drunk entirely he managed to be a bit ironical about the ‘Christ-shouter at the barn’.
at Christer, n.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Abrupt Decision’ in A Hasty Bunch 147: That was why he was so scared this morning, wondering if all the things the book said about the dangers in jacking-off were true.
at jack off, v.1
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Abrupt Decision’ in A Hasty Bunch 148: He seemed worried when I was jollying him.
at jolly, v.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Backslider’ A Hasty Bunch 5: The good man however touched upon the subject of mashing, and street flirtation.
at mashing (n.) under mash, v.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Summer’ in A Hasty Bunch 234: They were whining sorts, and both pinheaded old people.
at pinhead, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘A Boy’s Discovery’ in A Hasty Bunch 62: Rats, that’s a fairy story like Santa Claus.
at rats!, excl.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘A Vacation’s Job’ in A Hasty Bunch 182: It has left me with a pain in the loin [...] like leaving a woman half-screwed.
at screw, v.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Elsie’ in A Hasty Bunch 853: Well – I suppose I might as well spill the dope now. I was married this afternoon.
at spill the beans (v.) under spill, v.
[US] R. McAlmon ‘Abrupt Decision’ A Hasty Bunch 148: I wouldn’t let that fellow touch me with a ten foot pole.
at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
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