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in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs (1808) 313: The stage was now overrun with nothing but Merry Andrews and Pickle-her-rings.at pickle-herring, n.
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs (1808) 313: The stage was now overrun with nothing but Merry Andrews and Pickle-her-rings. in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs
(1808)
70: The hurry of our Stock-jobbing bubblers, especially, has been so great this week [...] there has been nothing but running about from one Coffee-house to another.at bubbler, n.1
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs (1808) 74: Mist’s Journal contains a paragraph, said to have been copied from a work intituled, ‘The Lord knows what, by the Lord knows who’.at Lord knows under Lord, n.1
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs
(1808)
88: The two horses still kept their courage, till they came to between Longford and Colnbrook, where he plainly perceived them begin to droop or knock-up.at knock up, v.
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs (1808) 89: The particular saucy impudent behaviour of the coachman in demanding the other twelver or tester above their fare, has been the occasion of innumerable quarrels, fighting, and abuses.at tester, n.1
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs (1808) 89: The particular saucy impudent behaviour of the coachman in demanding the other twelver or tester above their fare, has been the occasion of innumerable quarrels, fighting, and abuses.at twelver, n.
in Anecdotes of Manners and Customs
(1808)
120: Every watchman, as well patroles as others, and every beadle [...] are hereby authorized and impowered to arrest and apprehend all night walkers.at night walker, n.
(con. 1758) Anecdotes of Manners and Customs 276: Some miscreants [...] were in the practice of pretending to fight every evening on Ludgate-hill, for the diabolical pleasure of dealing blows indiscriminately on peaceable passengers; and, to use their own words, ‘in order to see the claret run’.at claret, n.
(con. 1768) Anecdotes of Manners and Customs 301: Their place of rendezvous was the Dolphin in Cock-lane, and their denomination the ‘Cutters;’ and, justly dreading the consequences of their conduct, they were provided with swords and fire-arms.at cutter, n.2
(con. 1763) Anecdotes of Manners and Customs 282: A female servant who was arrested for debt, and sent to a receiving or spunging house.at sponging-house, n.
(con. 1716) Anecdotes of Manners and Customs 261: The very focus of those mischiefs were the various mug-houses, as they were politely termed, or in other words Club-taverns.at mughouse (n.) under mug, n.1
(con. 1768) Anecdotes of Manners and Customs 295: Says I, ‘brother tarpawling (he is a seafaring man), I am afraid I shall have a desperate attack to-night from what I have heard.’.at tarpaulin, n.
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