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The Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches choose

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[US] ‘McAlpin’s Trip to Charleston’ in W.T. Porter (ed.) Quarter Race in Kentucky : Provided well with bread, meat, and a bottle of pale-face, which were stowed away in a pair of leather saddle bags .
at paleface, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 14: Colonel, let us have some of your byled corn – pour me out a buck load – there – never mind about the water, I drank a heap of it yesterday.
at buckload (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 45: I never paid no ’tention to him, till he bucked up too [sic] me an give me a feller rite under the ear.
at buck up to, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 38: In dispute between one Lot Corson and a ‘hard case’ called Emanuel Allen.
at hard case, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 45: The way I pitched it in to him was a caution to mules.
at caution, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 45: He picked up an ole axe helve an gin me a wipe aside the hed that laid me cole fur a while I tell you .
at cold, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 84: [The girls] came pourin out of the woods [...] fixed out in all sorts of fancy doings, from the broad-striped home-spun to the sunflower calico .
at doings, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 120: The boys said that was all gas, to scare them off; but ’twouldn’t work!
at gas, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 104: He went into his favourite grocery.
at grocery, n.2
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 177: Ef thar are anything he humps hisself on besides ugly, it is his manners among the fimmales.
at hump, v.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 105: The next moment he was knocked into the middle of the next three weeks!
at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 104: He went up the opposite bank at the same lick, and disappeared .
at lick, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 104: He went up the opposite bank at the same lick, and disappeared.
at lick, n.2
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 24: Everywhere I touched was pizen, and I came out at the leetle end of the horn.
at little end of the horn (n.) under little, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 83: He throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote.
at locomote, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 163: Do I know it, you no-souled, shad-bellied, squash-headed, old night-owl you!
at night owl, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 45: I got his head under my arm an I made him squeal immediately.
at squeal (on), v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 95: He’d pop his whip, and stretch his chains, and holler.
at pop, v.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 118: One of them thinks he’s got a scrub that’s ‘some pumpkins’.
at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 23: I would not advise any man to try to run over me .
at run over (v.) under run, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 118: Old T. never samples too much when on business.
at sample, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky 24: When you offered to bet on the sorrel, I was out of soap .
at soap, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 40: This question fairly ‘stump’d’ Lanty for a moment.
at stumped, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 118: He therefore proposes to run them three hundred yards, for ‘sucks all round’.
at suck, n.1
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