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[UK] Marvell ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in Aitken Poems and Satires I (1892) 57: Then worms shall try That long preserv’d virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust.
at quaint, n.
[UK] Marvell ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’ Poems and Satires (1892) 50: Whence every day [...] Court-mushrooms are sent in to pickle.
at mushroom, n.
[UK] Marvell ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’ Poems and Satires (1892) 50: His patient piss he could hold longer than / An urinal.
at piss, n.
[UK] Marvell ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’ in Aitken Poems and Satires II (1892) 20: Hast thou marked how antique masters limn [...] Sketching in shady smoke prodigious tools?
at tool, n.1
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d I 62: Before a full Pot of Ale you can swallow, / Was here with a Whoop and gone with a Hollow.
at whoop and a holler, n.
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d I 3: To trick up the good old Bishop in a yellow Coif and a Bulls-head, that he may appear in Fashion.
at bull-head, n.2
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d 63: Hearing of a vacancy with a Noble man, he clapp’d in, and easily obtained to be his Chaplain.
at clap in (v.) under clap, v.2
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d 7: But a bulky Dutchman diverted it quite from its first Institution, and [...] hath pestred [sic] the World ever since with the gross Bodies of their German Divinity.
at Dutchman, n.
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d I 5: Two or three brawny Fellows in a Corner, with meer Ink and Elbow-grease, do more Harm than an hundred Schismatical Divines with their sweaty Preaching.
at elbow grease, n.
[UK] Marvell Rehearsal Transpos’d 243: Did ever Divine rattle out such prophane Balderdash!
at balderdash, n.
[UK] Marvell ‘Cutting of Sir John Coventry’s Nose’ in Aitken Poems and Satires II (1892) 202: O ye Haymarket Hectors, How were you thus charmed.
at Haymarket hector, n.
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