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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.
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. Three Brass Balls 34: He got discontented and had fits of blue devils.at blue devils, n.
Three Brass Balls 36: Dear Ole boy.at old boy, n.
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.
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.
Three Brass Balls 68: My old ’omen’s dead beat, and she ain’t had a wink.at deadbeat, adj.
Three Brass Balls 59: It is a strange house, this grimy den in Soho.at den, n.
Three Brass Balls 192: It’s such a doosid rum affair.at deuced, adv.
Three Brass Balls 245: Old Nanny dratted the teacher’s ‘imperence’.at drat, v.
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.
Three Brass Balls 47: He turned back to the table and struck a ‘flamer’.at flamer, n.2
Three Brass Balls 130: The speaker was one of the flash young gentlemen who haunt suburban billiard-rooms.at flash, adj.
Three Brass Balls 176: The doctor said it was galloping consumption.at galloping, adj.
Three Brass Balls 234: Well, I’m blest! Here’s a go!at go, n.1
Three Brass Balls 50: The one-legged gentleman and his good lady were [...] going it hammer and tongs.at go it, v.
Three Brass Balls 86: Don’t give me the horrors.at horrors, the, n.
Three Brass Balls 182: Solomon Smith himself is chairman of the Society for Promoting Early Closing among the Hottentots.at Hottentot, n.
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
Three Brass Balls 208: The man is a swell mobsman caught picking pockets.at swell mobsman (n.) under swell mob, n.
Three Brass Balls 68: Howd yer row, will yer?at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
Three Brass Balls 208: It is thieves’ patter, but someone in the crowd understands it well enough and answers him.at patter, n.
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.
Three Brass Balls 40: The fresh air was Jack’s champagne, and a right good brand it is.at right, adv.
Three Brass Balls 250: It was that barrister that prosecuted who settled me.at settle, v.
Three Brass Balls 86: And you’re a dear old silly.at silly, n.1
Three Brass Balls 68: He had won the sobriquet of Simple Simon from his habit of talking to himself.at simple simon, n.1
Three Brass Balls 81: Mrs. Turvey wasn’t a bad sort.at sort, n.
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.3
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.
Three Brass Balls 155: Neat traps stop at the doors on Sundays.at trap, n.2
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