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[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 198: Yes – I thought myself a gone chick under that spur, George.
at gone chicken (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 65: Sometimes they give him Lynch’s Law, after old Nick Lynch, who invented it in Virginny, long before your time or mine.
at Judge Lynch, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 77: But why not trade now, Bunce? – what’s to hinder us now, you leather-faced Jew?
at leather-face (n.) under leather, adj.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 72: Answer to that, Jared Bunce, you white-livered lizard.
at white-livered, adj.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 72: Answer to that, Jared Bunce, you white-livered lizard.
at lizard, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers II 97: The old woman, by whom we mean [...] to indicate the spouse of the wayfarer, and mother of the two youths, was busied about the fire.
at old woman, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 74: Don’t put on any shines, old boy, or I’ll darken your peepers.
at put on, v.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers II 108: He rewarded [him] with a thrip (the smallest silver coin known in the southern currency — the five cent issue excepted).
at threp, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Guy Rivers I 65: Jared Bunce goes about, living on everybody, and coming Yankee over everybody.
at yankee, v.
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