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Peter Simple (1911) 78: They called me a raw Irishman, and raw I was, sure enough, from the constant thrashings and coltings I received.at colting, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 78: They called me a raw Irishman, and raw I was, sure enough, from the constant thrashings and coltings I received. Peter Simple (1911) 245: The price of the tickets of admission was high – I think they were half a joe, or eight dollars each.at joe, n.2
Peter Simple (1911) 73: D--n you, you have no excuse, so take that – and that – you yelping, half-starved abortion.at abortion, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 271: ‘Ah, Mr. Simple,’ said he, faintly, ‘is it you? It’s all over with me.’.at all over, adj.1
Peter Simple (1911) 328: An almighty pretty French privateer lying in St. Pierre’s.at almighty, adv.
Peter Simple (1911) 437: You are a d---d trencher-scraping, napkin-carrying, shilling-seeking, up-and-down-stairs son of a bitch.at up-and-down, adj.
Peter Simple (1911) 293: You observe, Terence, that I just said everything contrary and arce versa, as they call it.at arsey-varsey, phr.
Peter Simple (1911) 14: You would go, do all we could to prevent you, though you were as drunk as David’s sow.at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
Peter Simple (1911) 10: You must larn to chaw baccy.at bacca, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 10: You’re like a young bear, all your sorrows to come.at bear, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 216: I’ve been looking at your frigate, and she’s a beauty.at beauty, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 10: You must larn to chaw baccy, drink grog, and call the cat a beggar.at long-tailed beggar, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 365: Well, I’m d---d glad we’ve got hold of the beggar at last.at beggar, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 10: You must larn to chaw baccy, drink grog, and call the cat a beggar.at beggar, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 62: I do declare I likes to see a puddle in a storm – only look at the little biscuit-nibbler showing fight! Come, my lovey, you belongs to me.at biscuit nibbler (n.) under biscuit, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 135: In short, Mr. Simple, I was blown upon.at blown, adj.
Peter Simple (1911) 12: I am made to look very blue at the Blue Posts.at blue, adj.1
Peter Simple (1911) 111: Bother! you see it’s as much as she’ll do to weather the other point.at bother!, excl.
Peter Simple (1911) 243: Such a bouncer!! [...] I mean that he’s the greatest liar that ever walked a deck.at bouncer, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 70: Now that I’ve cured you, you’ll be tucking all that into your own little breadbasket.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 75: There’s that big bully of a Scotchman coming up the hill.at bully, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 117: There, take that, you contaminating, stave-dubbing, gimlet-carrying quintessence of a bung-hole!at bunghole, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 350: ‘Well, captain,’ said he, ‘so you met with a squall?’ ‘I calculate not.’.at calculate, v.
Peter Simple (1911) 33: ‘The cursed drunken old catamaran,’ cried he.at catamaran, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 50: We found all sorts of vehicles ready to take us to the fair. We got into one which they called a dilly. I asked the man who drove it why it was so called, and he replied, because he only charged a shilling.at dilly, n.1
Peter Simple (1911) 8: He is disguised with liquor.at disguised, adj.
Peter Simple (1911) 62: They’ve nabbed my husband; but I’ll be dished if I hav’n’t boxed up the midship-mite in that parlour, and he shall take his place.at I’ll be dished! (excl.) under dished, adj.
Peter Simple (1911) 22: His liberty’s stopped for getting drunk and running after the Dolly Mops!at dollymop, n.
Peter Simple (1911) 18: Being drilled was to be shot through the body.at drill, v.1
Peter Simple (1911) 11: Although the journey [...] would cost twice the value of gold seal, yet that in the end it might be worth a Jew’s eye.at Jew’s eye, n.
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