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The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous choose

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[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 191: You wretched rebellious little Ape.
at ape, n.
[UK] (ref. to 17C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous II 225: Rogues, Thieves [...] Bidstands, and Clapper-dudgeons [...] infested the outskirts of the Old Palace.
at bidstand, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 194: The Master Mariner had no power over his crew, and no license to put ’em in the Bilboes.
at bilbo, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 177: As for Grandchildren of the byblows of King Charles II, good lack! to hear them talk of the ‘Merry Monarch’.
at by-blow, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 171: I should like, master, to drink your health in a bumper of right Burgundy.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 225: Rogues, thieves [...] and Clapperdudgeons [...] infested the outskirts of the Old Palace.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 266: The poor wretches had a miserable hovel of an inn [...] where they ate their rye-bread and drank their sour clink.
at clink, n.2
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 240: His whole life, indeed, had been but one series of Crimes [...] cheating, cogging, betraying.
at cog, v.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 204: She may not to-morrow play as roguish a one to [...] any other smart Pink-an-eye Dandiprat that hangs about the Court.
at dandiprat, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 194: Sukey Mops and Dorothy Draggletail went off to the Drawing-room in Satin sacks and High-heeled shoes.
at draggle-tail, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 101: He was but a smock-faced lad fresh from the Mall.
at smock-faced, adj.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 147: Surely there never did exist so volatile, light-spirited, feather-brained a race as these same Negro Blacks.
at feather-headed, adj.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 280: ‘Ay, and to a pleasant journey to Fiddler’s Green,’ cries out the Captain.
at fiddler’s green (n.) under fiddler, n.3
[UK] (con. mid-18C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 94: Mistress Slyboots, his Flame, kept him company.
at flame, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 203: My Grannum (who had a ready Memory for those Tales).
at grannam, n.2
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 166: He is the meanest little hunks that ever skinned a flea.
at hunks, n.
[UK] (con. mid-18C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 236: To each of the dozen Warders there present he gave a Jacobus.
at jacobus, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 157: The unhappy creature, who had probably sold my Tobacco-stopper for a few joes [...] positively denied that I had given her anything beyond the half-dollar.
at joe, n.3
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 237: I am sure it was Ketch, for he came afterwards to the Stone Kitchen, wanting to treat all present to Drink.
at stone jug, n.1
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 157: She was a bitter woman when vexed, and called me ‘beggar buckra,’ ‘poor white trash,’ ‘tam lily thief,’ and the like.
at lily, n.
[UK] (con. mid-18C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 95: Mistress Slyboots, the Maid, used to say that he was in love.
at Miss, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 181: Our policy was to be Mum, or else to Flatter him.
at mum, adj.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 169: Squire Bartholomew [...] was certainly more than three parts Muzzy.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 179: The Daughter that as a Babe hung on her Paps.
at paps, n.1
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 200: He [...] musters up his best parleyvoo.
at parleyvoo, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 315: Pig, why dost thou not take off thy Hat?
at pig, n.
[UK] (con. mid-18C) G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 83: I never shoved the tumbler for tail-drawing or poll-snatching on a levee-day.
at poll, n.1
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 157: My Pumpkin-faced Patroness.
at pumpkin-face (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 243: A most frivolous Quean this, and I well rid of her.
at quean, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 201: Shall I, who have brained an English Grenadier, sneak off before a rabblerout of Sauerkraut Soldiers?
at sauerkraut, n.
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