1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 68: A man far away from home, sick as a dog, with no loving wife to look after him.at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 118: Dad said: ‘Look here, Mr. King, someone has got you all balled up about the war.’.at balled-up, adj.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 221: Well, sir, I have been in lots of tight places before, but this beats the band.at beat the band (v.) under band, n.2
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 35: It wouldn’t be strange, after all he has gone through [...] if he was a little off his base.at off one’s base (adj.) under base, n.2
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 129: Dad got a hot box, like a stalled freight train.at hot box, n.1
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 157: Dad and I [...] are now winding up our career by taking the last degree, before passing in our chips and commiting suicide.at pass in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 55: You made the longest shot ever made on the Potomac. It was a Jim dandy, you old frog eater.at jim dandy, n.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 81: Act as though you were going to jump overboard, and then stop sudden and let-’er-go-gallagher, right before folks.at let her go (Gallagher), v.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 93: ’Ells-fire, h’am blowed.at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 308: Holy jumping cats, but you ought to have seen the guides, yelling Allah! Allah!at holy jumping...!, excl.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 129: You Johnnies are a lot of confidence men, who live only to rope in rich American girls, so you can marry them.at rope in, v.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 454: When you play some lowdown trick on me, while I seem mad at the time, it does me good, starts the circulation.at lowdown, adj.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 66: I said: ‘Not on your tintype, Mr. Duke.’.at not on your tintype, phr.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 83: The Englishman squared off like a prize fighter.at square off, v.1
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 66: Dad was just going to get his roll out and peel off some more onion.at onion, n.1
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 44: We got into the white house without being pulled, but it was a close shave.at pull, v.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 20: Why don’t you clean out this shebang; and put in a new stock of goods.at shebang, n.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 348: You skip out to America, and come to Milwaukee.at skip out (v.) under skip, v.
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 208: He [...] wouldn’t take no slack from no Chicago female.at slack, n.1
1905 G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad 355: ‘I draw the line on Belgian hares [...] by gosh,’ said I, just like that, bristling up to dad real spunky.at spunky, adj.