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Westward Ho! II 100: What ignorant Turks these Indians are [...] I’m a nigger if I think this copper-washed man is a right clean, full-blooded feller-cretur.at I’m a nigger, phr.
Westward Ho! II 100: What ignorant Turks these Indians are [...] I’m a nigger if I think this copper-washed man is a right clean, full-blooded feller-cretur. Westward Ho! I 83: A Kentucky boatman, who eveybody knows is amphibious, ‘half horse, half alligator’.at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Westward Ho! I 121: Hold your tongue, you beauty, or you shall smell brimstone through a nail hole.at beauty, n.1
Westward Ho! II 155: Come, sit down here, and we’ll have a talk; a little piece of secret biography, for there’s nobody to blab here.at blab, v.
Westward Ho! I 23: The blackeys loved Massa Leetlejohn.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
Westward Ho! I 184: It was a blue day when I first put this old rotten tree across my path.at blue, adj.1
Westward Ho! I 193: Mrs. Judith would have undoubtedly burst the boiler of her curiosity, and exploded into scalding steam instead of tears.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
Westward Ho! II 17: Do you know, major, I’m a fortune-teller? I get my bread by it now.at bread, n.1
Westward Ho! II 52: She went cackling about the village.at cackle, v.
Westward Ho! II 144: I shall conquer the whole nation one of these odd-come-shorts.at odd-come short, n.
Westward Ho! I 127: Cut dirt, stranger, for your life; there’s a whirlwind coming.at cut dirt (v.) under cut, v.2
Westward Ho! I 38: Damme if he isn’t the finest creature in Virginia.at damme!, excl.
Westward Ho! I 45: No, I’ll be damned if I do!at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
Westward Ho! I 46: ‘The devil!’ exclaimed the colonel, astonished.at devil, the, phr.
Westward Ho! I 121: Shut pan, and sing dumb, or I’ll throw you into the drink.at drink, n.1
Westward Ho! II 190: Old Phiginny, Icod! she never tire, I say dat for she.at ecod!, excl.
Westward Ho! II 183: Poor old Snowball slipped her bridle the other day, and went out like a flash in the pan.at flash in the pan, n.
Westward Ho! II 181: He’s as mean as gar-broth.at garbroth, n.
Westward Ho! I 175: I wish I may be goy blamed if he didn’t spring up higher than the top of the cane-break.at golblamed, adj.
Westward Ho! I 80: If the horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn’t risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don’t every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom like gone suckers.at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
Westward Ho! I 193: No, hang it! that’s too musty.at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Westward Ho! I 161: The only resource is to take the whole tree, or ‘go the whole hog,’ as they say in ‘Old Kentuck.’.at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
Westward Ho! I 172: No, no, it’s a disgraceful shot – what I call a full huckleberry below a persimmon.at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
Westward Ho! I 80: If the horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn’t risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don’t every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom.at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
Westward Ho! I 182: I wish I may be hoppled all my life to come, if I didn’t get within a huckleberry of being smothered to death in one of them beds with curtains.at huckleberry, n.
Westward Ho! I 19: What, shut up my doors, like a miserable hunks [...] and pretend not to see strangers as they pass?at hunks, n.
Westward Ho! I 76: And on every hand we saw excellent land, / Where none but the Ingens resided.at Injun, n.
Westward Ho! I 107: J---s! that any white man should pity an Injen here on ‘the dark and bloody ground!’.at Jesus!, excl.
Westward Ho! I 77: Why, the year you got such a licking from the Yankee pedlar at Pittsburg.at licking, n.
Westward Ho! I 181: Come, come, mammy, stir these old stumps of yours, and get us something to eat.at mammy, n.1
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