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What I Heard, Saw, and Did 72: This man [...] was going to punch the block of a man three times his size.at block, n.1
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 72: This man [...] was going to punch the block of a man three times his size. What I Heard, Saw, and Did 172: The stuff to which I before alluded was called ‘Blow my skull off’.at blow-my-skull-off, n.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 50: He finds himself stumped, and applies to his friend [...] Not finding any consolation he leaves, when his friend rushes into the billiard room to relate poor Newchum’s misery to his fraternity, who deeply regret that it did not fall to their lot ‘flyblowing him’* [...] (* Being ‘fly blown’ is a Colonial term for being ‘done up’).at fly-blown, adj.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 179: For all I could know, he might have been a Hobart Town bolter.at bolter, n.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 224: I trust they will not patronize any bubble schemes [...] but support bona fide ones.at bubble, n.1
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 98: I have heard boasting at the diggings, as to the shortness of time in which they could ‘knock down’ a thousand or two pounds.at knock down, v.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 92: The old man [...] crying out every now and then, ‘give the old faggot plenty, for she might not have the chance again’.at faggot, n.1
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 169: He is the greatest sly grog seller in the diggings.at sly-grog, n.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 138: He was tried for signing his friend’s name to a kite.at kite, n.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 11: My one-eyed acquaintance asked [...] ‘whether he thought poor Bill so-and-so, as the traps had catched, would get scragged, and if so, if he would get turned off at Bathurst or Sydney?’.at turn off, v.1
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 32: ‘Why was he so anxious to sell it?’ ‘Because,’ answered his neighbour, ‘he had salted it himself, and then taken his friends to look at it.’.at salt, v.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 11: On being asked [...] whether I was going to have any scauf* [...] (*Anything to eat).at scoff, n.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 11: My one-eyed acquaintance asked [...] ‘whether he thought poor Bill so-and-so, as the traps had catched, would get scragged, and if so, if he would get turned off at Bathurst or Sydney?’.at scragged, adj.
What I Heard, Saw, and Did 158: Three old fellows with timber toes.at timber-toe, n.
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