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How the Poor Live 81: All the world and his wife are out to-night.at all the world and his wife, n.
How the Poor Live 81: All the world and his wife are out to-night. How the Poor Live 79: The friendly bouts with the gloves between local ‘chickens’ and ‘novices’ [...] were once regular Saturday night amusements.at chicken, n.
How the Poor Live 84: The delinquents were seized by the collar, and, before they could expostulate, flung down a flight of steps and hustled out [...] the youths seemed quite ready for the emergency, and took their ‘chucking-out’ most skilfully.at chuck out, v.
How the Poor Live 11: The little boys look up [...] at the burly Sykes with his flash style, and delight in gossip concerning his talents as a ‘crib-cracker’.at crib-cracker (n.) under crib, n.1
How the Poor Live 80: These [...] were mostly ‘ramps,’ or swindles, got up to obtain the gate-money, and generally interrupted by circumstances arranged beforehand by those who were going to ‘cut up’ the plunder.at cut up, v.2
How the Poor Live 43: A ’appy dosser can make himself comfortable anywhere. I heard of one who used to crawl into the dust-bin, and pull the lid down.at dosser, n.
How the Poor Live 84: The cry of ‘Hottentots’ went round. ‘Hottentots’ is the playful way in this district of designating a stranger, that is to say, a stranger come from the West.at Hottentot, n.
How the Poor Live 59: A certain vigorous letter [...] which appeared in the Daily Telegraph some years ago about servants ‘pigging with their relations at home,’ and wanting the best bedroom and a feather-bed with damask furniture when in service.at pig, v.1
How the Poor Live 80: These [...] were mostly ‘ramps,’ or swindles, got up to obtain the gate-money.at ramp, n.2
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