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London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies choose

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[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: You, who live upon the world’s iniquity; you miserable specimen of a bad six-and-eightpence.
at six-and-eightpence, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies Act III: Keep the old boy away.
at old boy, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act I: He might have good time to get cleared out at hazard or at whist.
at clear out, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance Act II: sir harcourt: Oh, damn Jenks! meddle: Sir, thank you. Damn him again, sir, damn him again.
at damn, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies Act II: I am only in the habit of receiving compliments from the fair sex. Men’s admiration is so damnably insipid.
at damnably, adv.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies Act IV: It was all that damned brandy punch on top of the burgundy. What a fool I was!
at damned, adj.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act I: But, stay, you must do the polite. Say farewell to him before you part. Hang it, don’t cut him.
at do the — (v.) under do, v.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: Permit me to introduce my friend Augustus Hamilton. (Aside to Max) Capital fellow! Drinks like a sieve and rides like a thunderstorm.
at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance Act III: I always like to be in at the death. Never drop your ears. Bless you, she is only a little fresh. Give her her head and she will outrun herself.
at drop one’s ears (v.) under drop, v.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act V: Judgment has been given in five cases [...] but Mr Courtly is an eel rather too nimble for my men. We have been on his track and traced him down to this village.
at eel, n.2
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: I would rather give up all my fortune and marry the man I liked than go to church with a stuffed eel-skin.
at stuffed eel-skin, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: He catches her in his arms and kisses her. Enter Lady Gay Spanker lady gay: Ha! Oh! [...] courtly: Fizgig! The devil!
at fisgig, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: Fizgig! The devil!
at fizgig, n.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies Act I: But, stay, you must do the polite. Say farewell to him before you part. Hang it, don’t cut him.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act V: Take up the irons every now and then, string for the first shot and blaze away at one another.
at iron, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance Act II: pert: The dear old man! Do you mean Sir Harcourt? grace: Law, no! My uncle, of course.
at law!, excl.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance Act I: Say no more, I’m your man. Wait till you see how I’ll murder your preserves.
at murder, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance Comedies (2001) Act II: courtly: (aside) Why, that’s is my governor, by Jupiter! dazzle: (aside) What, old whiskers! You don’t say that!
at old whiskers (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act IV: I am afraid they are getting too pleasant to be agreeable.
at pleasant, adj.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act IV: Ha, ha! Yoicks! Pug has broken cover.
at pug, n.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: lady gay: Max! max: Come in, you mischievous puss.
at puss, n.1
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance Act V: ’Pon my life, he’s actually going to assume the ribbons.
at ribbon, n.2
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: courtly: (aside) Why, that’s is my governor, by Jupiter! dazzle: (aside) What, old whiskers! You don’t say that!
at you don’t say under say, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies Act V: I know it will all end in smoke.
at smoke, n.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act V: I am always thick on the winning horse.
at thick, adv.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: Walked the steeple, eight miles in thirty minutes, and scarcely turned a hair.
at walk it (v.) under walk, v.
[UK] D. Boucicault London Assurance in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: Allow me to say, what, Sir What-d’ye-call’em, Carthorse Hartly?
at whatd’youcallhim, n.
[UK] W.S. Gilbert Engaged in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: You are quite right, the word is bouncers. Bouncers or bangers; either will do.
at banger, n.1
[UK] W.S. Gilbert Engaged in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act II: And I am to lose my pet at last; my little dickey-bird is to be married today! Well, well it’s for her good.
at bird, n.1
[UK] W.S. Gilbert Engaged in London Assurance and other Victorian Comedies (2001) Act III: He does not hesitate to invent, I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is ‘bouncers’.
at bouncer, n.1
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