1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 278: We can speak our minds over here; we can blaspheme, and profane, and rip, and snort, jest as we’ve a mind to.at rip and tear, v.1
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 278: His companions chew the cud – of tobacco – in silence, and regard me [...] as one who has been ‘chawed up some’, and considerably ‘run over’ by the colonel.at chewed (up), adj.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 283: She [a boat] belongs to that darned picayunish old ’coon, Jim Mason, and he’ll run her till she sinks or busts up.at coon, n.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 274: A parcel of blood-sucking nigger-driving Southerners.at nigger-driving (adj.) under nigger-driver, n.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 163: We had no intention of ‘getting to housekeeping’ in Superior.at get to, v.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 165: The purchase of these articles involved an immense amount of liquoring up. [...] It is one of the most ancient and sacred institutions of the country, whenever you are introduced to a man at the bar of a hotel to ‘liquor him right away’.at liquor (up), v.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 271: It’s clar to me [...] that you’ve been residing among the Punkins in the Yankee States, and have not been long enough in our country to comprehend the gen-i-us of our institutions .at pumpkin, n.
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota and the Far West 278: His companions chew the cud – of tobacco – in silence, and regard me [...] as one who has been ‘chawed up some’, and considerably ‘run over’ by the colonel.at run, v.