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[UK] Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall 12: After he had hang’d a convinient time, he was cut down [...] and so conveyed to the Tangier Tavern in St. Gile’s where he lay in State [...] Mum was the word, great silence expected from all that visited.
at mum’s the word under mum, adj.
[UK] Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall 7: One Vice [...] I mean that of drinking; for that very night he was surpriz’d he was overtaken.
at overtaken, adj.
[UK] Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall 7: He soon fell into want of Money [that] inclined him to take the Generous way of Padding.
at padding, n.1
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