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Sheppard in Egypt choose

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[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 21: Then to the Sable Spectre in Accents mild, / The Cause requests, who had his Arm beguil’d, / Bl-w-n in Transport crys W--d, W--d, W--d.
at blowen, n.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 17: Mrs. Boyle, also reproach’d me, for disturbing her at her Stand at the Bumper-Tavern Door.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 26: Their Places were sufficiently supplied with the Buttucks and Files of the Hundreds.
at buttock and file (n.) under buttock, n.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 17: There was no quieting their Clacks.
at clack, n.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 1: I acknowledge my self much oblig’d, to those Hearty Cocks, who waited at the Turn-stile for me with their Truncheons.
at cock, n.3
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 22: He that’s to be hang’d, & fate hath fixt th’lot, / To all’s Invulnerable but a H--p-n Knot, / No wonder then this Throat escap’d the Cut.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 28: He call’d for Pen, Ink, and Paper, to make our Mittimus’s to Newgate.
at mittimus, n.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 7: All of them fell to nibbling at my Phyz, with their pencils.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 17: They relented and ordered me half a Gallon of Strike fire for my Refreshment.
at strikefire (n.) under strike, v.
[UK] J. Sheppard Sheppard in Egypt 17: He grew out of Patience, and order’d a dozen Balls of Wild-fire to be ramm’d down my Throat to clear my Utterance.
at wildfire (n.) under wild, adj.
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