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It Is Never Too Late to Mend choose

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[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 284: So now he was down [...] and we bagged him.
at bag, v.
[UK] 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
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 150: Give them a kick a-piece on their behinds.
at behind, n.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1 312: ‘Come my birds,’ shouted Hodges roughly to the women.
at bird, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 248: He will shake all that nonsense to blazes.
at blazes, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 94: You put the blunt up.
at blunt, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 197: ‘Shoot him! what for?’ ‘Too much bungality, shoot him dead.’.
at bungality, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 241: Mr. Miles flung canting rogue and half-a-dozen oaths.
at canting, n.
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 117: Oh! you spiteful cat!
at cat, n.1
[UK] C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 81: How he trembles! Why, he must be chicken-hearted.
at chicken-hearted, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
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