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His Farewell to Military Profession choose

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[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 256: He laid on his cudgel, sparing neither head, shoulders, arms, back nor breast, and so be-bumbasted the doctor.
at bumbaste, v.
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession in Early Prose and Poetical Tracts (1853) I 23: This noble duke had no maner of skill in carpet trade.
at carpet trade (n.) under carpet, n.1
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession n.p.: She was such a devill of her tongue, and would so crossebite hym with suche teuntes and spightful quippes [F&H].
at crossbite, v.
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 316: In their hose so many fashions, [...] sometimes garragaskins breeched like a bear, sometimes close to the dock like a devil in play, wanting but a tail.
at galligaskins, n.
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 273: Have I, thou naughty pack, poisoned Agatha for thy sake.
at naughty pack (n.) under naughty, adj.
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 255: The lawyer [had] Such a piteous countenance as though he had been ready to be turned off the ladder.
at turn off, v.1
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 312: How canst thou, shameless quean, deny that.
at quean, n.
[UK] B. Riche Farewell to Military Profession (1992) 176: That villain whoremonger and his trull.
at trull, n.
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