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A School for Grown Children choose

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[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV iii: But, avast! avast!
at avast!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children II i: Ear-rings for me! Gemini, how genteel! what bangers!
at banger, n.1
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV iii: Ha! ha! Brought him on his beam-ends.
at beam-ends, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV i: Here comes Ned, jaded and blue-devilled.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children V ii: You, Sir Arthur, must become a black-leg, and your ladyship a blue-stocking.
at blue stocking (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children V iii: I’m not to be bounced out of my property.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children I ii: Then there’ll be more when the old boy retires, you know.
at old boy, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children III iii: He challenged me to drink bumpers.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children IV i: Last night Dexter cleaned him out.
at clean out, v.
[UK] T. Morton A School for Grown Children IV i: Breakfast, immediately! Anything simple, for I feel rather damaged.
at damaged, adj.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children II ii: And dang it! there’s no getting the pepper out of him.
at dang!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children II iii: You’re a lucky dog.
at dog, n.2
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children II i: Oh, such grand genteel doings at the Squire’s!
at doings, n.1
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children V ii: Drabbit it, Squire, if we were to go home in these clothes how old Blucher would savage us.
at drabbit!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children V ii: ’Tis the school of mutual instruction where faithless husbands learn prudence and uxoriousness, and vixen wives to lisp my duck and my deary.
at duck, n.1
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children III i: Ecod, I’ll have a skinfull!
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children I i: Gemini! how genteel!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV iii: Get ready your grapplers.
at grappler, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV iii: A reel, you lubber? You can dance that when you are drunk.
at lubber, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children II i: Oh, you must not be civil, mun!
at man, n.
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children IV i: Silence, mongrel!
at mongrel, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children III i: Ice! – aye that’s what makes this place so mortal slippery.
at mortal, adv.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children IV i: Last night I saw that old quiz.
at quiz, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children I ii: ’Sdeath! he’ll corrupt the country in a week.
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children V ii: A stranger! Now to show my shapes.
at show one’s shapes (v.) under shape, n.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children V ii: A stranger! Now to show my shapes.
at show one’s shape (v.) under show, v.
[UK] T. Morton A School For Grown Children II ii: sir a.: Where is your master? but.: Oh, snug! he’s invisible at the inn, if you want to see him.
at snug, adj.
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children IV i: Stick to him, honest Bob!
at stick to, v.
[UK] T. Morton School For Grown Children III iii: La, missus! how glad I be you are out of your dismal weeds!
at weeds, n.
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