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Life’s Vagaries choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 43: I’m not accomplish’d, I’m quite a bog trotter.
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 10: A man’s last will is the clincher.
at clincher, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 40: What curtain lectures, perhaps a divorce.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 24: Well, I didn’t run in debt for my face.
at run (on) one’s face (for) (v.) under face, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 17: On with my buckskin and jemmy jacket.
at jemmy, adj.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 50: She’s very rich [...] Madam, you’re a Jew.
at Jew, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 21: I believe you’re jumping out of your leather.
at leather, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 41: Enough, write his mittimus.
at mittimus, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 51: You don’t make a French Mounseer out of me.
at mounseer, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 24: He didn’t give me a Manx rap half-penny.
at rap, n.2
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 49: The bishop’s lady was the good woman in the straw.
at in (the) straw under straw, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 23: A variety of gambling tabbies, honourable black legs, and rickety children.
at tabby, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe Life’s Vagaries 40: She’ll trim his gay Lordship.
at trim, v.
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