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Fashionable Levities choose

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[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities II iii: Ecod she’ll never remember half of her servant’s names! but o’ tag, rag, and bobtail.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities I i: The fellow has come into life through as many shapes as an Orkney Barnacle, he was first a block, then a worm, and is now a goose.
at block, n.1
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities II i: You have [...] reduced my fortune to galloping decay.
at galloping, adj.
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities I i: Horn work—Eh?
at horn work (n.) under horn, n.1
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities I i: Though ignorant as a Hottentot, he has got himself rank’d among the literati.
at Hottentot, n.
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities I i: She’s a jilt, Colonel. — I hate a jilt.
at jilt, n.1
[Ire] L. Macnally Fashionable Levities Prologue: His Lordship [...] Thinks every honest bard a queer old Put.
at old put (n.) under put, n.1
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