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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 187: Telling how Deuceace and he floored a Charley, or Blueun and he pitched a snob out of the boxes into the pit. This was in the old Tom-and-Jerry days, when fisticuffs were the fashion.at tom and jerry, adj.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 187: Telling how Deuceace and he floored a Charley, or Blueun and he pitched a snob out of the boxes into the pit. This was in the old Tom-and-Jerry days, when fisticuffs were the fashion. Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 37: Natty tigers [might be seen] to kick around in buckskins prior to departing.at kick around, v.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 143: An old bag of bones of a mare.at bag of bones, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 4: His practised eye is not to be imposed upon [...] by the blandishments of the bang-tail.at bangtail, n.2
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 357: If you’ll give me eight-and-twenty bob, I’ll be off to Bedfordshire.at Bedfordshire, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 322: ‘Is old bellows-to-mend gone to bed?’ asked Mr. Sponge in a louder voice.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 202: ‘That must be from a woman,’ observed Jack, squinting ardently at the writing [...] ‘Not far wrong,’ replied his lordship. ‘From a bitch of a fellow, at all events’.at bitch, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 149: It was not often that Jack got a 'bite' at my lord, which, perhaps, made him think it the more incumbent on him not to miss an opportunity.at bite, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 359: Believe he's nothing but a great poaching blackleg.at blackleg, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 145: My lord's gone—hem—to dine—cough—hem—with his—cough—friend Lord Bubbley Jock.at bubbly jock, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 166: You did well, my old buck-o’-wax; and, by Jove! we’ll have a bottle of port.at buck o’ wax (n.) under buck, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 83: Mr Sponge buzzed his bottle of port.at buzz, v.2
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 6: The rustics [...] have the clownish look and boorish gait of the regular ‘chaws’.at chaw, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 9: Some bulky cit, taking the air with his rib.at cit, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 342: The first person who spied his note to Sir Harry Scattercash was Captain Seedeybuck [...] Having mastered its contents, the Captain refolded and placed it where he found it, with the simple observation to himself of—‘That cock won't fight’.at that cock won’t fight under cock, n.3
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 4: To the frequenters of the ‘corner’, it were almost superfluous to mention that he is a constant attender [...] Tattersall will hail him from his rostrum.at corner, the, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 306: Oh, you sanctified, putrified [...] counter-skippin’ snob.at counter-jumper, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 10: He [...] quilted the old crocodile of a horse all the way home.at crocodile, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 200: He talks of going over to Rowdedow Fair, and picking some [horses] up himself.at row-de-dow, adj.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 244: Deuce a bite did I get before six.at deuce, n.2
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 277: Beating the devil's tattoo upon the table to keep himself awake.at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 306: ‘Who the Dickens are you?’ retorted Mr. Sponge, without looking round.at dickens, the, phr.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 385: Mr. Sponge, being more of a two-shirts-and-a-dicky sort of man.at dicky, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 197: I held office, sir, under the Duke of Downeybird, sir, of Downeybird Castle, sir, in Downeybirdshire, sir.at downy bird (n.) under downy, adj.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 242: ‘Are they chaps with any “go” in them?—shake their elbows, or anything of that sort?’ asked Sponge, working away as if he had the dice-box in his hand.at shake one’s elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 210: Whether it was the excellence of the beverage, or that his lordship was unaccustomed to wine-drinking [but] his lordship was what the ladies call rather elevated.at elevated, adj.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 345: Charley Romford, or Facey, as he was commonly called, from his being the admitted most impudent man in the country.at facey, adj.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 133: Frosty’s a cunning old file.at file, n.1
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 189: We were at the Finish together till six this morning.at Finish, the, n.
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 188: Many were the smiles, and bows, and nods, and finger kisses, and bright eyes, and sweet glances, that the fair flyers shot at our friend.at flyer, n.3
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