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Life Without Armour choose

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[UK] A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 253: Yet not so blindoe that he would lapse into obscene humour.
at blindo, adj.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 108: After skimming the old one duck-and-drake across the briny.
at briny, n.
[UK] (con. 1942) A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 66: In a hangar smelling of peardrops, or ‘dope’ as we called it, we were given a parachute.
at dope, n.1
[UK] A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 28: We [...] passed rainy afternoons in a large mouldy-smelling hut at the end of the garden reading bound issues of Penny Dreadful magazines.
at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
[UK] A. Sillitoe Life Without Armour (1996) 165: Ernie and Arthur, called on me wanting to borrow a map so that they could [...] go ‘tatting’ in their fifteen-hundredweight lorry.
at tatting, n.
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