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Eight Months in Illinois choose

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[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 33: Look at him – see how he cuts gravel — whoop, halloo, &c.
at cut gravel (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 34: Hoe cake, pona bread and dodger.
at dodger, n.2
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 66: The old doctor was so everlastin’ busy.
at everlasting, adj.
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 66: The old doctor was so everlastin’ busy.
at everlasting, adv.
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 126: The way in which the mosquitos fix one is a caution.
at fix, v.1
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 93: But if it hadn’t been that I was the worse for liquor [...] I’d have whipped him like forty.
at like forty, adv.
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 15: The Kentuck denied he had done anything to insult him.
at Kentuck, n.
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 34: This is an occasion on which the old woman, as a wife [...] is familiarly termed, makes a display.
at old woman, n.
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 66: I know the way how to kill ague better than many a doctor by a long shot.
at by a long shot under shot, n.1
[US] W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 94: They may be a little too ‘slick’ for the Illinois suckers.
at sucker, n.2
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