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Dagonet Ballads 10: I care not a curse for the guardians.at not care a curse, v.
Dagonet Ballads 10: I care not a curse for the guardians. Dagonet Ballads 84: Get along with you, Mister — I ain’t told no poems to you, / That tale about Polly ain’t potry.at get along with you!, excl.
Dagonet Ballads 102: She’s as mad as a hatter, sir, now.at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
Dagonet Ballads 18: He’d made a bit at the farmin’, and was counted as well to do.at bit, n.1
Dagonet Ballads 4: And the bobbies came down on us costers.at bobby, n.1
Dagonet Ballads 106: I could see the jade’s game in a moment, and it come like a bombshell on me.at bombshell, n.
Dagonet Ballads 65: She hears [...] Of the torture in store for the outcast who sins for her daily bread.at bread, n.1
Dagonet Ballads 83: Past work is old Polly, God bless her! but while / I’ve a roof and a brown / There’s a meal for the mare as has served me.at brown, n.
Dagonet Ballads 31: You wouldn’t believe Sal Grogan, that poor, distorted wretch, / Was ever a fine young woman, and reckoned a decent catch.at catch, n.
Dagonet Ballads 70: I heerd ’em, old chap, what they sed.at old chap, n.
Dagonet Ballads 84: I felt when that grey chucked us over as Providence meant it, maybe.at chuck over (v.) under chuck, v.2
Dagonet Ballads 83: He was collared for somethin’ at Hendon, and walked off that minit to gaol.at collar, v.
Dagonet Ballads 4: And the bobbies came down on us costers [...] And them as ’ud got no licence was summerned to pay the tax.at come down on, v.
Dagonet Ballads 89: Comparing Sir George to — ’pon honour, that’s cool!at cool, adj.
Dagonet Ballads 70: They sed as I’d copped it o’ Jim; — / Well, it come like a bit of a blow, / For I watched by the deathbed o’ him.at cop, v.
Dagonet Ballads 83: He’d been cracking a crib, so they say, / And the peelers was put on his traces, and they copped him at Hendon that day.at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
Dagonet Ballads 3: Lor, what a cuss is drink!at cuss, n.2
Dagonet Ballads 69: Dang it all, Jack, it’s hard when it comes.at dang!, excl.
Dagonet Ballads 102: They be such a darned mixture o’ feelin’s—they love and they hate in a breath.at darned, adj.
Dagonet Ballads 102: They’ve got such grand notions of honour, and yet they’re so deucedly mean.at deucedly, adv.
Dagonet Ballads 77: He fancies hissef in a orfice, a-fillin’ o’ books with his scrawl.at fancy oneself (v.) under fancy, v.
Dagonet Ballads 69: I’ve been dozin’, old fellow, I think.at old fellow, n.
Dagonet Ballads 79: I bought a new hoss with the money,—I wanted to be a bit flash.at flash, adj.
Dagonet Ballads 103: Ev’ry man in the force here knows Molly—there’s pretty good reasons he should— / For the privates and sergeants and ’spectors, she flummoxed ’em all to a coon.at flummox, v.
‘Polly’ in Dagonet Ballads 79: So my mates what had flyers they passed me, and left me behind on the road.at flyer, n.3
Dagonet Ballads 80: I set there as proud as a peacock, a-holdin’ the reins like a toff, / And a-puffin’ a great big Maniller, as set my old gal on the cough.at old gal, n.
Dagonet Ballads 106: I could see the jade’s game in a moment, and it come like a bombshell on me.at game, n.
Dagonet Ballads 79: She’d worked like a good ’un, had Polly.at good ’un, n.
Dagonet Ballads 118: There’s a thoroughfare fringing a Grecian abode.at Grecian, adj.
Dagonet Ballads 2: Give it us straight now, guv’nor—what would you have me do?at guvnor, n.
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