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New Age 3 Mar. 569: Cheer up, Sir Roger, you are a jolly brick! / For if you ain’t Sir Roger, you are Old Nick!at brick, n.
New Age 3 Mar. 569: Cheer up, Sir Roger, you are a jolly brick! / For if you ain’t Sir Roger, you are Old Nick! New Age 19 Mar. 631: It is not what I once heard my old friend the sub-editor of the ‘New York Herald’ describe as ‘A daisy story,’ but it is what the sporting touts call ‘a stone ginger’.at daisy, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: It is not what I once heard my old friend the sub-editor of the ‘New York Herald’ describe as ‘A daisy story,’ but it is what the sporting touts call ‘a stone ginger’.at daisy, adj.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: He would carry with him [...] all exes paid, his band of ‘wraughters’ or ‘rorters’.at exes, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: Luxury carried to its highest point if the ‘fence’ could be not too far away, to advance him a professional proportion of the value of his haul. The ‘fence’ is the dealer or receiver.at fence, n.1
New Age 19 Mar. 631: He would carry with him the ‘jollier,’ whose duty it is to keep the ‘mug’ amused, and rouse him to acts of folly.at jollier, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: If he could organise it he would carry with him the ‘minder,’ who keeps watch for him.at minder, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: His band of ‘wraughters’ or ‘rorters’ [...] whose duty it is to jostle the ‘mug’.at mug, n.1
New Age 3 Mar. 569: Cheer up, Sir Roger, you are a jolly brick! / For if you ain’t Sir Roger, you are Old Nick!at Old Nick, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: His band of ‘wraughters’ or ‘rorters’ (there are two opinions about the spelling of this word).at rorter, n.1
New Age 19 Mar. 631: It is not what I once heard my old friend the sub-editor of the ‘New York Herald’ describe as ‘A daisy story,’ but it is what the sporting touts call ‘a stone ginger’.at stone ginger (n.) under stone, adj.
New Age 18 June 155: We’ll do just the same as we did before! / Stop out late at night! / But never come home tight.at tight, adj.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: All these he would carry with him so that he, the ‘worker,’ or the ‘tool,’ might have his mind and his hands freed for the masterstroke.at tool, n.1
New Age 19 Mar. 631: The painter is consumed with envy of the racecourse thief and the welsher.at welcher, n.
New Age 19 Mar. 631: All these he would carry with him so that he, the ‘worker,’ or the ‘tool,’ might have his mind and his hands freed for the masterstroke.at worker, n.1
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