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letter 7 June in Sel. Letters (2012) 120: Yor’ne too cheekish by half Governor. [...] You’d better take it out of yourself by a month and labour, on the Mill.at cheekish (adj.) under cheek, n.2
letter 7 June in Sel. Letters (2012) 120: Yor’ne too cheekish by half Governor. [...] You’d better take it out of yourself by a month and labour, on the Mill. letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 12: We’ve got a staving old Latin lesson today.at staving, adj.
letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 16: He demands these articles and interests the Gov. to put on the ‘mitts’ with him [...] When he get [sic] old enough I’ll learn him to ‘box’.at mitt, n.
letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 14: I can spoil an immense amount of good grub at any time.at spoil, v.
letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 27: If any son-of-a-gun says they are not the ‘daisy thing’ he never breathed the fumes.at sonofagun, n.
letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 48: He owned a red snot-rag.at snotrag, n.
letter 31 Oct. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 109: So you are a ‘bloomin’ artillery man – a red leg.at redleg (n.) under red, adj.
letter 2 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 124: I like Tommy Atkins but he won’t be in it.at Tommy Atkins, n.
letter 27 June in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 140: D--- those stinking Russians.at stinking, adj.1
letter 14 Oct. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 150: It makes a man look like a grizzly bear and feel like one but its the stuff.at stuff, the, n.
letter 26 July in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 147: America is much maligned and I ‘tie right up to her.’.at tie up, v.3
letter 22 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 168: I took the old lady to a quiet visit to the jug.at old lady, n.
letter May in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 171: Very interesting and dead right – make all the Moxies crazy and red in the face.at mockie, n.
letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 167: He’s good for soldiers but he would make life hell for poops & doods.at poop, n.3
letter 29 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 168: The stinking Russian Jews [...] such loathsome coin loving puds.at pud, n.1
letter 29 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 169: Not if your ‘Uncle Samuel’ is ‘on’ at the time.at Uncle Sam, n.1
Sel. Letters Jan–Feb. (1988) 206: Apaches charged gallantly – infantry got a Foot – shot em up to beat hell.at beat hell (v.) under hell, the, phr.
letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 249: The great house of Harper [...] play on the credulity of the pencil-pusher like a state legislator does on his followers.at pencil-pusher, n.
letter 19 Mar. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 128: You are a sad dog.at sad dog (n.) under sad, adj.
letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 73: I am in a sweat of a hurry.at sweat, n.
in Sel. Letters (1972) 4 June 26: By failing to get up at the hour of 5.45 AM I escaped departing with the bums mutts and jeffs (not to say ginks, slobs, and punks) who came over with us.at slob, n.1
letter 2 July Sel. Letters (1972) 27: He’s a tight-fisted [...] turd, about 5 feet high.at turd, n.
letter Apr. Sel. Letters 242: I owe it to myself — and you owe it to me — to have comparative peace of mind or I shall go bugs entirely.at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
letter 11 Aug. in Sel. Letters (1957) 103: Marianne gets little credit for her fight in New York but stands aces high with me for what she is doing.at stand ace-high (v.) under ace-high, adj.
letter Oct. Sel. Letters (1966) 31: This method of letter writing, this selection of odd notes, is very satisfying, but it’s a swine in some ways.at swine, n.
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letter Nov. in Sel. Letters (1966) 53: Farmers’ boys pressed amorously upon the udders of their dairymaids .at udders, n.
letter 11 May Sel. Letters (1966) 128: Wee on the sun that he bloody well shines not. Soon I see you .at wee, v.
letter 6 Dec. in Charters Sel. Letters II (1999) 227: Dammit, I was passed out (my ma too) after drinking waiting for you and others.at damn it!, excl.
Sel. Letters 277: Jocelyn thinks Perm is Endsville, which indeed it is, but at the same time it gives her a place to escape from and also to return to, sometimes.at Endsville, n.
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