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St Ronan’s Well (1833) 373: I am a raw Scottishman, Captain Jekyll, it is true; but yet I know a thing or two.at know a thing or two, v.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 373: I am a raw Scottishman, Captain Jekyll, it is true; but yet I know a thing or two. St Ronan’s Well (1833) 233: There is a trick for you to find an Abramman, and save sixpence out when he begs of you as a disbanded seaman.at abram-man, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 233: Get along with you! or the constable shall be charged with the whole press-gang to man the workhouse.at get along with you!, excl.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 310: As to your lawyer, you get just your guinea’s worth from him—not even so much as the baker’s bargain, thirteen to the dozen.at baker’s dozen, n.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 248: ‘But I will blow her,’ he said, ‘I will blow her ladyship’s conduct in this business!’.at blow, v.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 376: ‘She sent me a card for her blow-out,’ said Mowbray, ‘and so I am resolved to go.’.at blow-out, n.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 233: Come, none of your quizzing, my old buck.at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 332: ‘I have always a brace of bull-dogs about me.’ [...] So saying, he exhibited a very handsome, highly-finished, and richly-mounted pair of pistols.at bulldog, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 118: Mick you are right, and I am a scrupulous, chicken-hearted fool.at chicken-hearted, adj.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 195: Curse me but I should think he was coming the old soldier over me, and keeping up his game.at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 191: They say she is to be married and off to England ane of thae odd-come-shortlies.at odd-come-shortly, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 221: At the duly appointed hour, creaked forth the leathern convenience, in which, carefully screened by the curtain [...] sat Nabob Touchwood.at leathern conveniency, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 296: No man like you for stealing other men’s inventions, and cooking them up in your own way.at cook up, v.
St Ronan’s Well III 102: He is a queer auld cull.at cull, n.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 30: Three draggle-tailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope’s follies when she has dune wi’ them.at draggle-tailed, adj.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 389: My dear John, you have drunk hard—rode hard.at hard, adv.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 331: Everybody that has meddled in this St. Ronan’s business is a little off the hooks [...] in plain words, a little crazy.at off the hook(s) under hook, n.1
St Ronan’s Well II 197: What the devil has a ship to do with horse’s furniture? — Do you think we belong to the horse-marines – ha! ha!at horse marine (n.) under horse, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 337: We have already had footpad work enough—I promise you the old buck was armed, as if he meant to bing folks on the low toby.at low-toby, n.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 331: A proper fellow, sir—one of those fine gentlemen whom we pay for polishing the pavement Bond Street.at proper, adj.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 74: Well, dearest Rachel, we will not pull caps about this man.at pull caps (v.) under pull, v.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 119: Come, Mick—no skylights—here is Clara’s health.at skylight (n.) under sky, n.1
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 337: ’Slife! wert thou mad?at ’slife!, excl.
St Ronan’s Well (1833) 330: The devil take the twaddle! [...] he is too old and fat.at twaddle, n.
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