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The Destruction of Gotham choose

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[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 81: She held the little black ‘bulldog’ pistol in her small white hand.
at bulldog, n.
[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 136: Hattie Lane is poor – dog poor.
at dog-poor (adj.) under dog, adv.
[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 167: A young man might stand on his pegs a dozen years or so a dozen hours a day; but an old man like me [...] can’t stand it, gov’nor.
at peg, n.1
[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 111: You will have to put up for the tobacco.
at put up, v.
[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 42: A fellow scribe [...] like himself, picking up crumbs of fact and fancy.
at scribe, n.
[US] J. Miller Destruction of Gotham Prologue: The janitor of the Tombs sprinkled carbolic acid about the room.
at Tombs, the, n.
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