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Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 81: I let him have a slash of lime from my brush bip into his eyes.at bip, adv.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 81: I let him have a slash of lime from my brush bip into his eyes. Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 87: [I made promises], which kind of blarney quieted the objection she had to me.at blarney, n.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 112: The boss carpenter was awake when we entered the room; he asked us WHAT’S BROKE, said he. I told him we were on a sort of a Jerry, and wished to get a bed for that night if we could.at boss, adj.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 59: Weapons called colts, which is a short rope with a heavy knot at the end.at colt, n.2
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 93: The plastering was worth about twelve dollars, and I charged him thirty-one, and thirty-one half gallons of beer, so I thought I had fixed his flint pretty well.at fix someone’s flint (v.) under fix, v.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 85: He was as fond of sport as any body, with one exception, he was fond of the hardware, and I was not, although I never poured it into my shoes, neither when it was agoing, although I never was so fond of it as Mr. C. was.at hardware, n.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 91: I consented finally to settle the hash, [...] upon which we made good friends.at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 86: I quit my trade, and began to keep her bar for that winter. I lived jam . . . til some time in the month of March. [Ibid.] 119: The dollar and a quarter was all spent in wine, brandy and cakes, while that lasted we lived jam, and never gave up until the money was all spent.at jam, adv.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 112: The boss carpenter was awake when we entered the room; he asked us WHAT’S BROKE, said he. I told him we were on a sort of a Jerry, and wished to get a bed for that night if we could.at jerry, n.2
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 119: Her intended husband, and he was a sweet looking lark.at lark, n.3
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 98: [He made an offer,] I told him I could not depend on that kind of mush.at mush, n.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 66: We kept the pegs moving [during a spree] for two nights, and the way it wound up was just nobody’s business.at peg, n.4
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 59: In the evenings we would walk out in the market-house, that was the place of general rendezvous for privateering, and among the first things that threw itself in our way as an object of diversion, was an old woman.at privateer, v.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 106: Mr. Ickes [...] a tavern-keeper in Abbotstown, and a very inquisitive kind of an old root.at root, n.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 95: At which we picked up our scrapers as speedy as we could move.at take to one’s scrapers (v.) under scraper, n.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 114: [He] told me to take him to my house and keep him till the next morning; thinking no doubt to shab me off in that way.at shab off (v.) under shab, v.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 82: All which was done by way of a slant, that if I knew where he lived [...] that I would find a way to get them without his consent.at slant, n.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 74: By way of a slope, I also formed an intimacy with one of his daughters.at slope, n.1
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 97: He called for a large glass of brandy sling mixed with other liquors, called stone-fence.at stone fence (n.) under stone, adj.
Hist. of My Own Times (1995) 78: Let me inform all those [who may think otherwise] that they are in the suds.at in the suds under suds, n.1
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