1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 117: I have no recollection of going to bed and had to take a ‘hair of the dog’ this morning.at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 306: A ‘blackbirding’ expedition – i.e., to lure, decoy or kidnap the islanders from their homes, wives and children.at blackbirding, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 50: ‘But me going to be cooky,’ replied Shan demurely. ‘Cook be hanged!’.at cookee, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 215: Devil fly away wid the smoke that a glass of good crater doesn’t improve.at creature, the, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 218: The dirty loafer or shabby demirep besides the silk skirt or dress-coat.at demi-rep, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 151: He had learnt the dummy alphabet, and so could talk to his sweetheart with his fingers.at dummy, n.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 149: Next morning when I went to the bank to collect the swag, they stopped the flimsy, and had me arrested before I could look round.at flimsy, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 178: ‘I haven’t been to Pinchgut boarding school,’ responded Harley [...] ‘Don’t be in a hurry to get into that school, my boy.’.at pinch-gut, adj.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 217: By the holy poker which smote Pharaoh!at by the holy poker! (excl.) under holy poker, n.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 105: Four on them sickened all at once in the camp we had struck, and after they had kicked it, my two mates went with me [F&H].at kick it, v.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 123: The Jackeries, i.e. favored station hands, cursed him. [Ibid.] 141: Policemen, stock-riders, Jackeries, the maid-servants.at jackery, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 217: Hold your jaw! [...] We don’t allow speaking here.at hold one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 256: If the police do take you, it’s a hanging job, as you know.at job, n.2
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 48: ‘Seeky wolk [...] anything you like.’ ‘Can you give this Johnny work, Mr. Graves?’.at John, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 112: I’m not so badly off, even if he does kick out to-night.at kick out, v.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 248: ‘Are the police coming?’ [...] ‘I tinky not. Only that sundowny lun away like ol’ lag.’.at lag, n.2
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 155: Followed by his brother in affliction, with his mourning eyes.at in mourning under mourning, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 103: Negro-head is not the best kind of tobacco to use while drinking port.at niggerhead, n.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 149: I wish I had stopped mad [...] that year I was off my nut was like one short day spent in the Mahometan’s paradise.at off one’s nut (adj.) under nut, n.1
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 103: I wonder how much of the blamed stuff [i.e. laudanum] it would take to polish him off altogether?at polish off, v.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 153: He gave me the pair of spectacles which adorn me barnacles.at pair of spectacles (n.) under pair, n.
1890 H. Nisbet ‘Bail Up!’ 212: And, by the piper that played before Moses, so they did.at by the piper (that played before Moses)! (excl.) under piper, n.4