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[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal III i: ’Tis evident you never cared a pin for me.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal Epilogue: While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire.
at booze, v.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal III i: An old dangling bachelor, who was single at fifty, only because he could never meet with any one who would have him.
at dangle, v.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal III i: And your friend is an unconscionable dog.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal III iii: Gad’s life, little Premium, you don’t seem to like the business?
at gad, n.1
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal IV iii: Sir Peter! – Oons and the devil!
at oons!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan School for Scandal Epilogue: That spirit-stirring drum! card drums I mean – Spadille, odd Trick, Pam, Basto, King and Queen!
at pam, n.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal III iii: Here’s to the flaunting extravagant quean.
at quean, n.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal II i: ’Slife, madam, I say, had you any of these little elegant expenses when you married me?
at ’slife!, excl.
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal II iii: Ha! ha! ha! that he should have stood bluff to an old bachelor so long, and sink into a husband at last.
at stand bluff (v.) under stand, v.2
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal I ii: We tift a little going to church, and came to a quarrel before the bells had done ringing.
at tiff, v.3
[UK] Sheridan School For Scandal II i: Zounds! madam, you had no taste when you married me!
at zounds!, excl.
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