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Harry Coverdale’s Courtship choose

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[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 127: He did not care a pin.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 155: Two other domestic operations which [...] have lapsed into well-merited disrepute – viz., quarrelling with one’s bread and butter, and cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 104: After imbibing the ‘rosy,’ I went ahead like beans.
at like beans (adv.) under beans, n.3
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 39: Have you seen the rabbit warren [...] there are such a lot of the beggars jumping about!
at beggar, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 366: He is [...] half-jockey, half-dealer, and whole blackleg of a low stamp – there are hundreds such on the turf.
at blackleg, n.1
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 104: Ally [...] looked precious pale and interesting, and like to blub.
at blub, v.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 105: He’s a rich old buffer.
at buffer, n.3
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 28: Like that fabulous humbug Pegasus, that old Buzwig is always bothering us about.
at buz-wig, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 371: Gently there – take it coolly!
at take it cool (v.) under cool, adv.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 47: I always thought he’d been a counter-jumper!
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 11: You hit him an awful crack!
at crack, n.1
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 100: They ‘did’ Westminster Abbey, which they really enjoyed.
at do, v.2
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 371: Gently there – take it coolly! why, you’re becoming quite a fire-eater.
at fire-eater, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 370: I can hardly suppose even Phil Tirrett would have the face to throw me over and ride for O’Brien.
at face, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 114: Here’s a scoundrel, who lived eight years with Lord Flashipan.
at flash in the pan, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 396: I thought I would avoid all the difficulties [...] by taking French leave, and setting off in disguise and under a feigned name.
at French leave, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 302: ‘It’s a pint of half-and-half,’ observed Jack [...] ‘Or “heavy” wet, if he were out in the rain,’ added the guardsman.
at heavy wet, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 351: Why had Alice written off in such hot haste to this young man?
at hot, adj.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 105: Master Arthur didn’t disgrace his profession in the jawing line either.
at jawing, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 12: Markum, lend us a fin, old man, for I feels precious staggery-like, I can tell you.
at like, adv.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 105: Master Arthur didn’t disgrace his profession in the jawing line either.
at line, n.1
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 12: Markum, lend us a fin, old man, for I feels precious staggery-like, I can tell you.
at old man, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 105: He’d made a regular mull of it.
at mull, n.2
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 165: He’s so ‘wide-o,’ that it’s not so easy to nab the warmint.
at wide-o, adj.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 3: When we’ve polished off the rabbits.
at polish off, v.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 28: Harry, restraining a strong inclination to lay his horsewhip across the young pickle’s shoulders.
at pickle, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 30: There’s that confounded puppy, D’Almayne, swaggering up to Alice.
at puppy, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 72: Chartists, levellers, red-republicans, and all that is dangerous and subversive of morality and security of property.
at red, adj.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 104: After imbibing the ‘rosy,’ I went ahead like beans.
at rosy, the, n.
[UK] F. Smedley Harry Coverdale’s Courtship 5: We mean to have a slap at the rabbits to-morrow.
at have a slap (at) (v.) under slap, n.2
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