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First Fam’lies in the Sierras choose

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[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 9: Old Baldy whistled a little air.
at baldy, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 88: Hell’s a poppin’, I tell yer.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 93: The gals is almost tuckered! Go!
at tuckered (out), adj.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 62: The cinnamon-headed dealer of drinks put cayenne pepper in a gin cocktail and Schiedam schnapps in a Tom and Jerry.
at tom and jerry, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 132: His face was never relieved by a smile, and his chin stuck out fearfully; so that one day [...] Snapping Andy [...] called him ‘Old Baboon’.
at baboon, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 67: All of the following popular drinks, that is Old Tiger, Bad Eye, Forty Rod, Rat Pizen, Rot Gut, Hell’s Delight, and Howling Modoc, were all made from the same decoction of bad rum, worse tobacco, and first-class cayenne pepper.
at bad-eye, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 111: You say she’s bilked us?
at bilk, v.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 142: The men [...] lowered the unshapely box, caught up spades, and found a positive relief in heaping the grave.
at box, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 85: Washee-Washee will lie [...] but he steals no more, do you, little brownie?
at brownie, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 110: The great Washington, Caesar, Horace Greeley, all sich big-bugs.
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 51: ‘Gone for his two little bull-pups,’ said Stubbs. That was what the Parson called his silver-mounted derringers.
at bull pup (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 49: He allers was a kind of a prayin’ codfish eatin’ cuss.
at codfish, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 103: Dang my cats if it’s bigger nor my thumb!
at dang, v.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 55: At all events he had the ‘drop,’ and could afford to wait.
at drop, n.1
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 46: It’s an everlastin’ and a burnin’ shame!
at everlasting, adj.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 9: ‘Ginger blue!’ cried the Parson.
at ginger (blue)! (excl.) under ginger, n.3
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 101: Sandy, by the great Caesar!
at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 105: Here’s to it! Here’s to the Little Half-a-pint [...] they did not know the baby’s name.
at half-pint, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 10: There was a run that night on the little Jew shop. [...] Before midnight the little kinky-headed Israelite had not a shirt, collar, or handkerchief.
at kinky-headed, adj.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 101: Be the Moses, it’s a plate of holy wafers!
at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras xxi 184: He had had his carouse, and was now playing sober Indian [DA].
at play (the) sober Indian (v.) under Indian, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 60: Somebody [...] said ‘Jerusalem!’.
at Jerusalem!, excl.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 94: Even the head man of the company [...] jumped a first-class poker game [...] to come in and weigh out dust [DA].
at jump, v.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 44: A Missourian who lay [...] smoking the pipe of ‘pigtail’.
at pigtail, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 137: He had failed to negotiate with the cinnamon-headed vendor of poison.
at poison, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 67: All of the following popular drinks, that is Old Tiger, Bad Eye, Forty Rod, Rat Pizen, Rot Gut, Hell’s Delight, and Howling Modoc, were all made from the same decoction of bad rum, worse tobacco, and first-class cayenne pepper.
at rotgut, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 51: Well, Sandy is no sardine.
at sardine, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 13: A cross between a Shylock-Jew and a flint-faced Yankee.
at shylock, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 111: I don’t ’low no white-livered son of a gun to go about a-talking about a woman like that.
at sonofagun, n.
[US] J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 93: Go! Split!
at split, v.
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