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[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 2: I’ll stay here a bit.
at bit, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 137: I could hear, as well as see, that brandy-faced rascal.
at brandy-face (n.) under brandy, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 39: We’ll have to budge, mates.
at budge, v.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 30: Small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men.
at chicken-hearted, adj.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 229: And now, my cock, you’ve got to go.
at cock, n.2
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 66: But dash my buttons! that was a good ’un.
at dash my buttons! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 77: I was dog-tired.
at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 20: If I don’t have a drain o’ rum, Jim, I’ll have the horrors.
at drain, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 92: Here’s to ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.
at duff, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 16: ‘Wounded? A fiddle-stick’s end!’ said the doctor.
at fiddlestick’s end (n.) under fiddlestick, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 178: My only plan was to take French leave, and slip out when nobody was watching.
at French leave, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 39: Sure enough, they left their glim here.
at glim, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 66: But dash my buttons! that was a good ’un [...] he began to laugh again.
at good one, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 2: This is [...] a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?
at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 161: You can go hang!
at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 91: When the time comes, why let her rip!
at let her rip!, excl.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 20: If I don’t have a drain o’ rum, Jim, I’ll have the horrors.
at horrors, the, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 161: Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind’s eye. But I’ll tell you I was sober.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 87: And can you trust your missis?
at missis, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 20: I’m a man that has lived rough, and I’ll raise Cain.
at raise Cain (v.) under raise, v.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 278: As the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony, ‘George,’ said he, ‘I reckon I settled you’.
at settle, v.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 66: I’d have [...] broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would. [Ibid.] 106: Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes.
at two shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 15: Out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed a wonderful clean pair of heels.
at show (someone) a (clean) pair of heels (v.) under show, v.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 240: What soft-headed lubber had a Bible?
at soft-headed (adj.) under soft, adj.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 14: We’ll sit down, if you please, and talk square, like old shipmates.
at square, adv.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 19: Doctors is all swabs.
at swab, n.
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island (1979) 75: Gentlemen of furtune [...] lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks.
at swinging, n.1
[Scot] R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 77: Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave.
at tip, v.3
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