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Uncle Tom’s Cabin choose

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[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 81: Lor, Pete [...] han’t we got a buster of a breakfast!
at buster, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3: That chap’s a case, I’ll promise.
at case, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6: A little humanity thrown in along goes a heap further than all your jawin’ and crackin’.
at crack, v.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3: ‘Hulloa, Jim Crow!’ said Mr. Shelby, whistling, and snapping a bunch of raisins towards him, ‘pick that up, now!’.
at Jim Crow, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1981) 275: I thought she was rather a funny specimen in the Jim Crow line .
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 82: Aunt Chloe set a chair for her in a manner decidedly gruff and crusty.
at crusty, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 55: Mind you don’t cut up none o’ yer shines about it.
at cut (up) a shine (v.) under cut up, v.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom 6: Black Sam, as he was commonly called, from his being about three shades blacker than any other son of ebony on the place.
at ebony, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 58: Flap down your fifty, If we get the job, and it pays, I’ll hand it back.
at flap, v.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 332: Shut your old black gash, and get along in with you.
at gash, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 53: I’m in the devil of a hobble, and you must help me out.
at hobble, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 106: I [...] actually was so cruel as to restrict him to one dozen of my cambric handkerchiefs. Dolph was particularly huffy about it, and I had to talk to him like a father to bring him round.
at huffy, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6: A little humanity thrown in along goes a heap further than all your jawin’ and crackin’.
at jawing, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom 12: The trader waked up bright and early, and came out to see to his live stock. It was now his turn to look about in perplexity. ‘Where alive is that gal?’ he said to Tom.
at livestock, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 54: Get us hot water, and sugar, and cigars, and plenty of the real stuff.
at real thing, the, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 57: Tom’s a roarer when there’s any thumping or fighting to be done.
at roarer, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 54: So, then, ye’r fairly sewed up, arn’t ye?
at sewed up, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 58: But it an’t all I want, by a long jump.
at by a long shot under shot, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 332: ‘Haw! ho!’ said the sooty gnome, laughing.
at sooty, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom 31: Stout fellers last six or seven years; trashy ones get worked up in two or three.
at trashy, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom 17: To tell the truth, Phineas had been a hearty, two-fisted backwoodsman, a vigorous hunter, and a dead shot at a buck.
at two-fisted (adj.) under two, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Uncle Tom 16: St Clare wouldn’t raise his hand, if every one of them walked over him.
at walk (all) over (v.) under walk, v.
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