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Gaslight and Daylight 75: Men who yet adhere to the traditional crown bowl of punch, the historical ‘rump and dozen.’.at rump and a dozen, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 75: Men who yet adhere to the traditional crown bowl of punch, the historical ‘rump and dozen.’. Gaslight and Daylight 217: We know that the really interesting ‘ads’ are in the body of the paper.at ad, n.1
Gaslight and Daylight 61: Where, sir, is the old original alderman pipe, the churchwarden’s pipe, the unadulterated ‘yard of clay.’.at alderman, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 72: A counter perforated [...] for the purpose of allowing the drainings, overflowings, and out-spillings [...] to drop through, which, being collected with sundry washings, and a dash, perhaps, of fresh material, is [...] dispensed under the title of all ‘sorts.’.at all sorts, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 167: No lords or squires of high degree live in this political Alsatia [i.e. Soho].at Alsatia, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 68: I know what Barclay and Perkins mean, I hope; — what Combe and Delafield — what Truman, Hanbury and Buxton — what Calvert and Co. [...] They all mean Beer.at Barclay (and) Perkins, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 108: A miserable little atomy, more deformed, more diminutive, more mutilated than any beggar in a bowl.at atomy, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 37: If you enter one of these pawnshops [...] you will observe these peculiarities in the internal economy of the avuncular life.at avuncular, adj.
Gaslight and Daylight 167: Perambulating these shabby streets [...] known inelegantly, but expressively, as ‘back slums’ [...] dingy houses teeming with that sallow, cabbage-stalk and fried fish sort of population, indigenous to back slums.at back slums (n.) under back, adj.2
Gaslight and Daylight 41: Coming from Greenwich or Blackwall, radiant with ‘Badminton,’ or ‘Cider cup.’.at badminton, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 46: The ‘Burster’ is very short of hands; but he has bagged very few A.B.’s yet.at bag, v.
Gaslight and Daylight 31: Joe Barrikin, of the New Cut, who sells us our cauliflowers.at barrikin, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 350: He had pigs’ eyes of no particular colour [...] a ‘bashed’ nose, and a horrible hare-lip.at bash, v.
Gaslight and Daylight 7: Some derisive couplets relative to the Great Spitalfields Lodging-House, which is styled a ‘Bastile.’.at bastille, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 2: The proprietor [...] is off to bed. [...] There is a bristly bearded tailor [...] who utters a similar somniferous intention. He calls it ‘Bedfordshire.’.at Bedfordshire, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 133: To see him in his huge shirt-sleeves, with his awkward beefy hands hanging inanely by his side, and his great foolish mouth open.at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
Gaslight and Daylight 20: Discoursing especially of the immense number of ‘bits of fat’ for him (Clown) in the pantomime.at bit of fat (n.) under bit, n.1
Gaslight and Daylight 134: ‘Wait a bit,’ says he. Three days afterwards he came out with the fat barmaid.at bit, n.1
Gaslight and Daylight 302: A florid man who officiates as a waiter at the London Tavern o’nights, and sometimes takes a spell in the black work, or undertaking line of business.at black work (n.) under black, adj.
Gaslight and Daylight 263: The stuff itself, which in the western gin-shops goes generally by the name of ‘blue-ruin’ or ‘short,’ is here called indifferently, ‘tape,’ ‘max,’ ‘duke,’ ‘gatter,’ and ‘jacky.’.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Gaslight and Daylight 107: Bacchus is dismounted here, and lies wallowing in the thwarts of a bumboat.at bum-boat, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 342: Gaunt reapers and bog-trotters in those traditional blue body-coats, leathern smalls, and bell-crowned hats, that seem to be manufactured nowhere save in Ireland.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
Gaslight and Daylight 88: He has been a general of brigade in his time; but he has donned the Boniface apron, and affiliated himself to the Boniface guild.at boniface, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 212: A small picture panel of a Dutch Boor, boosy, as usual, and bestriding a barrel of his beloved beer.at boozy, adj.
Gaslight and Daylight 241: There is a brown dog [who] is generally known in the rents as the Bow-wow.at bow-wow, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 98: He is a rough great-coat, every hair of which stands on end [...] and known in sporting circles, I believe, from its resemblance to the outer envelope of a shaggy dog, as a ‘bow-wow coat.’.at bow-wow, n.
Gaslight and Daylight 120: Mr. Bumblecherry [...] has been a brother of the angle, and a supporter of the Swan for twenty years.at brother (of the)..., n.
Gaslight and Daylight 354: Look at my trotters [...] they’re hard as bricks. Go buff-steppered – that’s the game.at buff-steppered (adj.) under buff, n.1
Gaslight and Daylight 264: A capital house though, to-night: a bumper, indeed. Such a bumper [...] that they have been obliged to place benches on the stage.at bumper, n.2
Gaslight and Daylight 355: He urged me [to] go ‘a grub-cadging,’ i.e., to beg broken victuals at small cottages and gentlemen’s lodge-gates.at cadging, n.
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