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Three Brass Bells choose

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[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 206: It is the time when ‘Black Maria,’ the prison van, stands waiting at the door, and the signal is given that the prisoners are coming out.
at Black Maria, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 34: He got discontented and had fits of blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 36: Dear Ole boy.
at old boy, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 160: It was bad enough to be so pushed that the flat-iron had to go for a few coppers to carry on with.
at copper, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 189: She was spoony on me once; but, dem it all, you know, it won’t do, will it?
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 68: My old ’omen’s dead beat, and she ain’t had a wink.
at deadbeat, adj.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 59: It is a strange house, this grimy den in Soho.
at den, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 192: It’s such a doosid rum affair.
at deuced, adv.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 245: Old Nanny dratted the teacher’s ‘imperence’.
at drat, v.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 175: In the worst days of American slavery never was there such nigger-driving as that practised systematically by the wholesale drapery trade.
at nigger-driving (n.) under nigger-driver, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 47: He turned back to the table and struck a ‘flamer’.
at flamer, n.2
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 130: The speaker was one of the flash young gentlemen who haunt suburban billiard-rooms.
at flash, adj.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 176: The doctor said it was galloping consumption.
at galloping, adj.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 234: Well, I’m blest! Here’s a go!
at go, n.1
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 50: The one-legged gentleman and his good lady were [...] going it hammer and tongs.
at go it, v.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 86: Don’t give me the horrors.
at horrors, the, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 182: Solomon Smith himself is chairman of the Society for Promoting Early Closing among the Hottentots.
at Hottentot, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 130: The speaker was one of the flash young gentlemen who haunt suburban billiard-rooms [...] and call the marker ‘Jack’.
at jack, n.1
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 208: The man is a swell mobsman caught picking pockets.
at swell mobsman (n.) under swell mob, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 68: Howd yer row, will yer?
at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 208: It is thieves’ patter, but someone in the crowd understands it well enough and answers him.
at patter, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 101: This is what they call a plant, your ladyship, and the sooner the police know of it the more likely we are to get your necklace back.
at plant, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 40: The fresh air was Jack’s champagne, and a right good brand it is.
at right, adv.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 250: It was that barrister that prosecuted who settled me.
at settle, v.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 86: And you’re a dear old silly.
at silly, n.1
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 68: He had won the sobriquet of Simple Simon from his habit of talking to himself.
at simple simon, n.1
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 81: Mrs. Turvey wasn’t a bad sort.
at sort, n.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 45: They would chaff, and ask him what he’d put his Sunday ‘togs’ up the spout for.
at up the spout under spout, n.2
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 51: If I’ve killed her and they swing me, it’ll be a happy release for both of us.
at swing, v.
[UK] G.R. Sims Three Brass Balls 155: Neat traps stop at the doors on Sundays.
at trap, n.2
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