1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 306: ‘You know a thing or two,’ whined the doleful Fry.at know a thing or two, v.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 34: A fig for me being drowned if the kid is drowned with me.at fig, a, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 76: He means something – be quiet Carlo licking me all to pieces, – but what it is heaven only knows.at all to pieces, adv.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 245: You may bully him and queer him till all is blue, and he won’t budge.at till all is blue, phr.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 282: I hope [...] you don’t think I am such an out-and-out scoundrel as that Hawes.at out-and-out, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 39: The first crucifixion Eden saw he turned as sick as a dog.at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 327: He [...] is now an ‘asker,’ i.e. he begs, receives alms].at asker, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 284: So now he was down [...] and we bagged him.at bag, v.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 133: I am not a regular beak; because I have not got authority from the Crown.at beak, n.1
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 150: Give them a kick a-piece on their behinds.at behind, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 312: ‘Come my birds,’ shouted Hodges roughly to the women.at bird, n.1
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 159: You will gain as you won’t be put in the black hole for refractory conduct, No. 19.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 32: Do you think it is true about their knocking down blackee in one lot, and his wife in another. [Ibid.] 171: A mosquito flew into one of blackee’s nostrils [...] The aboriginal sneezed.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 248: He will shake all that nonsense to blazes.at blazes, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 13: The coats of your stomach being irritated by your disorder, they have raked it like blazes.at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 177: Y’re just as decent a body as ever I forgathered wi’.at body, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 306: Now don’t you get in a rage and burst your boiler.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 281: By the time I had shaken my knowledge-box and found out north from south, I heard the poor man’s nailed shoes clattering down the road.at knowledge box, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 131: Here is a new dodge, Brummagen planted on us so far from home.at Brummagem, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 197: ‘Shoot him! what for?’ ‘Too much bungality, shoot him dead.’.at bungality, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 328: How suspicious you are! Bush-rangers again, I suppose. They are always running in your mind – them and gold.at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend I 316: She was stronger than he was for a minute or two, and that moment would have done his business. She meant killing.at do the business (v.) under business, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 362: ‘Now suppose you march out the way you came in’ cackled Mrs. Davies.at cackle, v.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 245: All this not in English but in thieves’ cant, with an oath or a nasty expression at every third word.at cant, n.1
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 241: Mr. Miles flung canting rogue and half-a-dozen oaths.at canting, n.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 81: How he trembles! Why, he must be chicken-hearted.at chicken-hearted, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 33: ‘How has he punished you?’ ‘Oh! sometimes it is clamming; nothing but a two-penny roll all day.’ [Ibid.] 94: ‘I was clammed to death.’ ‘Clammed?’ [...] ‘North-country word for starved’ explained Mr. Eden.at clammed, adj.
1856 C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend I 34: I heard one of your clodhoppers say the other day, ‘The squire is a good gentleman’.at clodhopper, n.