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The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay choose

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[UK] Marryat Life of Frank Mildmay II 256: Abbogada pears (better known by the name of subaltern’s butter).
at subaltern’s butter, n.
[UK] Marryat Life of Frank Mildmay II 74: Drinking was not among my vices. I could get ‘fresh,’ as we call it, when in good company and excited by wit and mirth; but I never went to the length of being drunk.
at fresh, adj.1
[UK] Marryat Life of Frank Mildmay II 11: The jollies fired tolerably well did they?
at jolly, n.1
[UK] Marryat Life of Frank Mildmay II 121: The young officer might like a drop o’ long cork; bring us [...] one o’ they claret bottles.
at long cork (n.) under long, adj.
[UK] Marryat Life of Frank Mildmay I 103: I, and my Noah’s Ark, lay slap in the way.
at slap, adv.
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