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The Golden Shanty choose

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[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Golden Shanty’ in Golden Shanty (2003) 9: Mickey had been compelled to supplement his takings as a Boniface by acting alternately as fossicker, charcoal-burner, and ‘wood-jamber’.
at boniface, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Golden Shanty’ in Golden Shanty (2003) 10: Michael ‘went for’ the nearest Asiatic, and proceeded to ‘put a head on him as big as a tank’.
at put a (new) head on someone (v.) under head, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mr. and Mrs. Sin Fat’ in Golden Shanty (2003) 51: Mrs. Sin Fat would have seized the earliest opportunity of converting the bird into square gin.
at square, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Golden Shanty’ in Golden Shanty (2003) 11: [...] pointing out to the Yellow Agony [...] the gross wickedness of robbing a struggling man of his house and home.
at yellow agony (n.) under yellow, adj.
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