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Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations choose

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[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 32: I can tell to an old stock, every shirt [...] or washable article belonging to every half-and-half fellow in Town.
at half-and-half, adj.
[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 17: There was carroty-poled, lantern-jawed Irishman amongst them.
at carrot-polled (adj.) under carrot, n.
[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 17: There was carroty-poled, lantern-jawed Irishman amongst them and a fiddle-faced whitey-brown coloured Aberdeen man.
at fiddle-faced (adj.) under fiddle, n.1
[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 23: Thunderan nagers, says he, (the moment he saw me,) if it isn’t the varmint of a resurrection-man.
at nagah, n.
[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 16: I had no appeal against the sapient judge’s sappy-headed decision.
at sappyheaded (adj.) under sappy, adj.
[UK] P. Pry Reminiscences, Mishaps and Observations 23: Thunderan nagers, says he, (the moment he saw me,) if it isn’t the varmint of a resurrection-man.
at thundering, adj.
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