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Digby Grand (1890) 137: An enormous measure of ‘Badminton,’ that grateful compound of mingled claret, sugar, and soda-water.at badminton, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 137: An enormous measure of ‘Badminton,’ that grateful compound of mingled claret, sugar, and soda-water. Digby Grand (1890) 155: An extremely abrupt conclusion [...] empties every bumper of ‘black strap’ like a shot.at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
Digby Grand (1890) 305: I began to think my military friend was ‘a bonnet’ — one of those harpies employed by gambling-house keepers to enhance temptation by the influence of example, and generally selected for their respectable and innocent appearance.at bonnet, n.2
Digby Grand (1890) 282: By Gad! Dandy, we’re done! [...] if that’s not the two ‘bums’ walking upstairs, I’m a Scotchman.at bum, n.2
Digby Grand (1890) 231: [of a horse] ‘Polly’s the card for you to stick to, ain’t she, Grand?’.at card, n.1
Digby Grand (1890) 43: The way he cleaned out a southerner [was] a caution.at caution, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 129: After a great deal of discussion, called by the vulgar ‘chaff’.at chaff, n.1
Digby Grand (1890) 156: A few steady old sexagenarians whose clay [...] requires a deal of moistening.at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 43: The way he cleaned out a southerner [...] was [...] a caution.at clean out, v.
Digby Grand (1890) 305: I was not yet what he called ‘completely cleaned out.’.at cleaned (out), adj.
Digby Grand (1890) 291: To whose wonderfully-fitting continuations, ‘pants’ he calls them, the ‘Ananyridians’ themselves are but as a Dutchman’s drawers.at continuations, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 43: Colonel Dodge [...] boasts himself ‘a ’cute old ’coon from Mississippi’.at old coon (n.) under coon, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 223: I wonder you don’t make up to some woman with money, cut the Guards, and have a house in London, with a hunting-box down here.at cut, v.4
Digby Grand (1890) 223: Board her, woo her, assail her [...] no fellow here can cut you out if you only like to try.at cut out, v.2
Digby Grand (1890) 51: Preferring my society to that of all her other danglers.at dangler, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 76: This darky’s getting troublesome, come and put him out.at darkie, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 49: I pull her up [...] conscious that Fancy Jack has done me by a short half-length.at do, v.1
Digby Grand (1890) 282: I saw a bailiff once [...] and I was down upon those birds in half no time.at down, adv.2
Digby Grand (1890) 95: From spendthrift King John downwards, the Christian has ever pocketed the ducats, and abused the donor [i.e. the Jews].at ducat, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 86: I dealt him [...] such a ‘facer’ between the eyes, as sent him down upon the pavement prostrate.at facer, n.2
Digby Grand (1890) 94: What a facer! £2900, — and where to get the money?at facer, n.2
Digby Grand 29: Spooner loses a five-pound note, or, as he calls it, a fiver, to my antagonist.at fiver, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 256: Flattered by my attentions, and pleased with my loudly expressed admiration of his ‘flyer,’ he [said] that ‘Oriel’ was the fastest horse he had ever trained.at flyer, n.3
Digby Grand (1890) 48: He was nervous, absent, and dispirited, or, as Mrs Times remarked, ‘a greater gaby than ever.’.at gaby, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 243: I made two thousand last week, in the funds [...] but next year I hope to begin on a larger scale, and make a really ‘good thing’.at good thing, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 227: I think that girl is hooked.at hooked, adj.2
Digby Grand (1890) 23: What a flat Grand was, to be hooked by such a flirt as that!at hooked, adj.1
Digby Grand (1890) 45: ‘G’long, hoss!’ concluded our informant, with roars of laughter at Jessamy.at horse, n.
Digby Grand (1890) 31: With the advantage of superior play on our side, we ‘walked into’ our adversaries’ stakes. [Ibid.] 47: By Jove, Grand, if it only comes off, we shall walk into these Yankees ‘pretty considerable handsome, I estimate.’.at walk into, v.
Digby Grand (1890) 45: Captain Jessamy [...] ‘Lavender Jem,’ as we called him.at jessamy, n.
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