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Civil and Military Gazette 21 June in Pinney (1987) 44: It were best to leave you, ducky, / Rough on you, but best for me.at ducky, n.
Civil and Military Gazette 21 June in Pinney (1987) 44: It were best to leave you, ducky, / Rough on you, but best for me. Civil and Military Gazette 21 June in Pinney (1987) 44: Come under the Punkah, Maud, / For the air is devoid of ozone, / And the scent of the brick-kilns is wafted abroad.at ozone, n.1
Civil and Military Gazette 7 May in Pinney (1987) n.p.: The official swells at the head of affairs say they are willing to deal promptly and severely with any cases.at swell, n.1
Civil and Military Gazette 25 Dec. in Pinney (1987) Just conceive me if you can, knocking about the back streets of Madrid with a vagabond student! I wonder how I could ever have been so low.at knock about, v.1
Civil and Military Gazette 25 Dec. in Pinney (1987) n.p.: ‘I’m – blessed, if I do,’ I responded fervently. ‘Don’t swear,’ said Le Diable Boiteux.at blessed, adj.
Civil and Military Gazette 2 Apr. in Pinney (1987) What the deuce is this ’ere man a saying of sir?at what the deuce...?, phr.
in Pinney Kipling’s India (1986) 65: I am the Junior Civilian horribly dikked by the Superior Being, and squabbling with a tactless, factious Municipal Committee.at dick, v.1
Civil and Military Gazette 25 July in Pinney (1987) 116: These Travelled Tots had ‘done’ the greater portion of the Continent, having seen men and cities from London to Venice.at do, v.2
Civil and Military Gazette 25 Dec. in Pinney (1987) 132: Who pulled Sapless through his go of typhoid by sheer nursing?at go, n.1
Civil and Military Gazette 25 Dec. in Pinney (1987) 131: Screw, cold blooded old reptile.at screw, n.1
Civil and Military Gazette 25 Dec. in Pinney (1987) 130: ‘Skittles!’ retorted Le Diable Boiteux scornfully.at skittles, n.1
‘The Longest Way Round’ in Civil and Military Gazette 30 Sept. n.p.: There were — call them drawing-pins, Norfolk-Howards in that ourdah, and its esprit de corps, horse for the most part, was indescribable and unequalled.at Norfolk Howard, n.
Kipling Captains Courageous cap.1: 🌐 Pif! My cig’s out. [...] Any gen’elman got a real Turkish cig on him?at cig, n.
Kipling Captains Courageous cap.1: 🌐 Otto went overboard—an’ he was only a Dutchy, an’ twenty year old at that.at Dutchy, n.
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