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Bill Nye and Boomerang choose

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[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 13: They want to be most worthy high grand muck-a-muck of the entire ranch.
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 206: I [...] hear the rattle of the cast iron ‘come-alongs.’.
at come-along, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 15: They loved each other in season and out of season [...] If Damon were at the bat, Pythias was on deck.
at at bat (adj.) under bat, n.2
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 252: Dangerous Davis caressed his brass-mounted Grecian bend.
at Grecian bend, n.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 81: He called upon blank to everlastingly blank such a blankety blank blank, idiotic blank as the young man was.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 81: He called upon blank to everlastingly blank such a blankety blank blank, idiotic blank as the young man was.
at blank, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 121: Blast his picture! Why didn’t he have some style about him.
at blast, v.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 14: Some one ‘blowed on him,’ and the next morning his head was thumping about in the waste paper basket.
at blow, v.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 91: You could also write religious articles [...] and blow in a good many scads.
at blow in, v.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 86: Keno-El-Pharo received the Oriental grand bounce from the inn-keeper. [Ibid.] 192: On yester morn I did give him the grand bounce.
at give someone the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 198: The great, throbbing world [...] don’t care a brass-mounted continental cuss one way or the other.
at brass-mounted (adj.) under brass, adj.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 96: When I read this little thing [...] it broke me all up.
at break up, v.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 200: Others have sneered at me and called me a horny-handed buckwheater from the rural districts.
at buckwheat, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 15: One day Damon got too much budge and told the [...] royal bummer of Syracuse what he thought of him.
at budge, n.2
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 34: Mule skinning, vocal music, horsemanship, plastering, bull whacking, etc., etc.
at bullwhack, v.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 15: One day Damon got too much budge and told the [...] royal bummer of Syracuse what he thought of him.
at bummer, n.3
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 190: Wyoming was new and infested with the bear, the bunko-steerer and the bold, bad man.
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 110: [She] whispered a few low musical words in his ear. That did the business.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 286: The gorgeous eighteen-karat-stem-winding profanity of the present day.
at eighteen-carat, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 17: He jabs the Mexican spurs into the foamy flank of his noble cayuse plug.
at cayuse, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 94: She was middling chipper.
at chipper, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 198: The great, throbbing world [...] don’t care a brass-mounted continental cuss one way or the other.
at continental, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 196: I will [...] not call to my aid a cheap Jim Crow, hand-me-down-liar.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 10: He [i.e. a mule] is a highly amusing little cuss.
at cuss, n.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 15: They loved each other in season and out of season [...] If Damon were at the bat, Pythias was on deck.
at on deck under deck, n.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 166: The presiding officer had lost control, and a surging crowd of yellow dogs had the floor.
at yellow dog, n.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 168: Until women’s suffrage came among us, life was a drag – a monotonous sameness, and simultaneous continuousness.
at drag, n.1
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 155: The [...] lantern-jawed, sway-backed, mangy, flannel-mouthed poet of the educated and refined East.
at flannel-mouthed, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 37: She dreamed that she dwelt in marble halls and kept a girl and had a pretty fly time generally.
at fly, adj.
[US] ‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 42: The buffer-beam was blown higher than Gilroy’s kite.
at higher than Gilderoy’s kite, adj.
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