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London Characters 83: Racks, bilboes, and other ‘hateful and grim things’.at bilbo, n.
London Characters 83: Racks, bilboes, and other ‘hateful and grim things’. London Characters 319: This page, or ‘buttons,’ begins with a wage of £8 and his clothes.at buttons, n.
London Characters 351: There are broken-down master-butchers [...] ‘craked-up’ costermongers and dilapidated counter-jumpers.at counter-jumper, n.
London Characters 347: Nor is the phrase ‘to die dancing on nothing’ a very commiserate figure of speech.at dance upon nothing (v.) under dance, v.
London Characters 348: The rogues were pleased to style such a mode of making their exit from the world as ‘dying with Cotton in one’s ears’.at die with cotton in one’s ears (v.) under die, v.
London Characters 353: Rough pilot coats, and shiny tarpaulin ‘dreadnaughts’.at dreadnought, n.1
London Characters 349: I had ‘done’ my quarter of an hour on the everlasting staircase.at everlasting staircase (n.) under everlasting, adj.
London Characters 322: The owners of the smacks and other boats had a strong incentive to arrive early at ‘the Gate’.at Gate, the, n.
London Characters 195: He dined there, he supped there, and he ‘grogged’ there.at grog, v.1
London Characters 346: The well-known Newgate metaphor of a ‘hempen widow’.at hempen widow (n.) under hempen, adj.
London Characters 347: This happens to be one of the wittiest figures of speech to be found in the whole of the rogue’s ‘Joe Miller’.at Joe Miller, n.
London Characters 420: [as cit. 1861].at mop (up), v.
London Characters 349: I had seen the wretched herd of mudlarks, sewer-hunters, rag-pickers [...] huddled together of a night at a ‘twopenny rope’.at mudlark, n.
London Characters 45: A fourth or fifth-rate actor’s conversation is perhaps more purely ‘shoppy’ than that of any other professional man.at shoppy, adj.
London Characters 44: A mild but slangy youth of two-and-twenty.at slangy, adj.
London Characters 345: A slice of ‘plum-duff’ [...] a ‘pen’orth of sore leg’.at sore leg (n.) under sore, adj.1
London Characters 419: He was a hard drinker – ‘a regular stiff ’un,’ said he.at stiff ’un, n.
London Characters 421: A pound of steak with plenty of gravy in it; that’s the stuff to work upon.at stuff, the, n.
London Characters 45: The two poor old gentlemen [...] are ‘supers’ of the legitimate school. They are not of the class of ‘butterfly-supers,’ who take to the business at pantomime time.at super, n.1
London Characters 313: You have a treasure of a cook.at treasure, n.1
London Characters 349: I had seen the wretched herd of mudlarks, sewer-hunters, rag-pickers [...] huddled together of a night at a ‘twopenny rope.’.at twopenny rope (n.) under twopenny, adj.
London Characters 345: The sharp and grinning young monkey of a street-Arab [...] loves to speak of suet-dumplings as ‘white-swellings.’.at white swelling (n.) under white, adj.
London Characters 476: I can’t say what my thoughts is about the young ’uns [...] It’s wretched in the extreme to see one’s children want and not to be able to do to them as a parent ought.at young ’un (n.) under young, adj.
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