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Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded choose

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[UK] Richardson Pamela I 89: Ads-bobbers! said Mr. Longman.
at ads, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela II 326: Said she, I think he did make two or three attempts upon you in Bedfordshire? Yes, Madam, said I, he was very naughty, to be sure.
at Bedfordshire, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela II 88: The Girl is a good sort of Body.
at body, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela (1813) 408/1: Never fear, old boy, said Sir Charles, we’ll bear our Parts in Conversation.
at old boy, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela II 19: You are very sawcy, Pamela [...] with your bewitching Chit-chat, and pretty Impertinence.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] Richardson Pamela II 179: Answer me, fat-face!
at fat-face (n.) under fat, adj.
[UK] Richardson Pamela I 133: I was again a little fluster’d; for in came the Coachman with the Look of a Hangman, I thought, and Madam’d me up strangely; telling me, he would beg me to get ready to pursue my Journey by Five in the Morning.
at madam, v.
[UK] Richardson Pamela I 164: She sat down by me, and seem’d in a great Pucker.
at in a pucker under pucker, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela I 208: For all her pumps, she gave no hint [F&H].
at pump, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela II 24: A deal of Stuff and Chit-chat between me and the odious Mrs. Jewkes.
at stuff, n.
[UK] Richardson Pamela I 239: Bless me! she curses and storms at me like a Trooper.
at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
[UK] Richardson Pamela I 138: I never saw an Execution but once, and then the Hangman ask’d the poor Creature’s Pardon, [...] and then calmly tuck’d up the Criminal.
at tuck up, v.
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