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The Duenna choose

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[UK] Sheridan Duenna III i: Oh! what a cursed bully-headed, bloody-minded, swaggering dog it is!
at bully, adj.2
[UK] Sheridan Duenna I i: ’Tis well the catterwauling puppy made his escape – a minute more, and I would have made a riddle of his calicoe carcase.
at calico, adj.
[UK] Sheridan Duenna II iv: I shall be entitled to the girl’s fortune, without settling a ducat on her. Ha! ha! ha! I’m a cunning dog, an’t I?
at ducat, n.
[UK] Sheridan Duenna I i: Reach me the blunderbuss! [...] Hence, or these slugs are thro’ your brain.
at slug, n.1
[UK] Sheridan Duenna II ii: One glance of those roguish sparklers would fix me again.
at sparkler, n.
[UK] Sheridan Duenna III v: Ye eat, and swill, and sleep, and gourmandize, and thrive.
at swill, v.
[UK] Sheridan Duenna I iii: I suppose you don’t mean to detain my apparel – I may have my things, I presume?
at things, n.
[UK] Sheridan Duenna II iv: Oh, the easy blockhead! what a tool I have made of him!
at tool, n.1
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