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The Bushranger’s Sweetheart choose

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[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 78: She had knocked a good deal about the wardrobes of theatres in all parts of the colonies.
at knock about, v.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 2: Too careless [...] to look after the rupees or rubies which were knocking about during the mutiny.
at knock about, v.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 286: Wot the adjective adjective are you laughing at?
at adjective, adj.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’ s Sweetheart 195: The wicked little anatomy.
at anatomy, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 292: Blatter away at them without waiting for their call ‘Bail Up’.
at bail up! (excl.) under bail up, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 227: ‘There’s my whistle and my barkers to you.’ [...] He handed his revolver and whistle to Jessie.
at barker, n.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 53: We were suddenly transported into a scene from the Arabian Nights. ‘By gosh this beats cock-fighting!’ said Jim.
at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 119: Authors [...] who think no small beer of themslves, on the other side of the herring pond.
at think small beer of (v.) under small beer, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 152: Arrah, be jabbers! but that’s the foinest song I have listened to.
at bejabers!, excl.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 106: I have done my level best to cater for them.
at level (best), n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 65: ‘So I’ve got you at last, my fine swell bilker, have I?’ shouted the landlord.
at bilker (n.) under bilk, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 32: A small billycock hat, folded jauntily.
at billycock, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 9: Debts of honour, which [...] would leave me branded as a blackleg amongst all the fellows I knew.
at blackleg, n.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 292: Ride them down, and blatter away at them.
at blatter, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 35: I [...] will put you up to everything, from Fan-Tan in Little Burke Street to running the block in Collins Street.
at do the block (v.) under block, n.8
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 76: I found the old block lying senseless.
at block, n.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 81: Wonderful bloodhounds these detectives are!
at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 148: Blow it! [...] let’s have a shy at the business for ourselves.
at blow it!, excl.
[Aus] H. Nesbit Bushranger’s Sweetheart 144: She screeched out like blue murder, until she had raised the house and forced me to jump the window.
at like blue murder (adv.) under blue murder, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 192: He is meditating a bolt and only wants time to gather his cash all in.
at bolt, n.1
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 135: It ain’t likely that a [...] girl is going to look after a boosy bushman for nothing, is it?
at boozy, adj.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 138: Boots which had not been brushed since they had been borrowed.
at borrow, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 37: Bully, my boys!
at bully!, excl.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 79: She had received some money [...] and was therefore going on the ‘burst’ next day.
at (go) on the burst under burst, n.2
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 108: Keep those cursed male butterflies from annoying her.
at butterfly, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 101: Captain Rainbow, the bushranger, at your service.
at captain, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 307: Cave in, Captain Rainbow, for your time is up.
at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 53: Wh-a-t say you to – to a bo-o-tt-tt-tle of ch-ch-ch-am, eh?
at cham, n.2
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 35: Don’t you lose sight of this chicken when we land, if you are wise; for he’ll take care that you’re not diddled.
at chicken, n.
[Aus] H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 64: By Christopher, but that old man could run.
at Christopher!, excl.
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