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To Kiss the Crocodile choose

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[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 219: ‘Here’s looking at you,’ said a thin, sharp-featured girl.
at here’s looking at you!, excl.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 141: He was clad in a wrapper. ‘Come to your auntie Clara,’ said this person.
at auntie, n.2
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 192: The rising screech and roar of half trafficking London borne on an upward gust of old dragon’s-breath!.
at dragon breath, n.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 247: Real Chinese grub. Jes’ like the place in the Dilly at ’ome.
at Dilly, the, n.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 62: He had to give up his dinky little rooms in King William Street.
at dinky, adj.1
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 224: They footled along the American shore, north and south.
at footle, v.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 239: ‘By hookey!’ said the Yankee.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 138: An impossible woman. A tuft-hunter. Avid for notabilities.
at tuft-hunter, n.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 258: Get up, yer self-destroying little morphrodite.
at morphodite, n.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 220: Yes, you’re more his number, Loulou.
at number, n.
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 326: The terrible dream, born of his poppy inhalations.
at poppy, n.1
[US] E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 142: ‘How I should have survived the summer without this dear thing, I don’t know.’ The dear thing was Roy.
at thing, n.
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