1833 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang 145: Major, you don’t mean it. You don’t know who I am. I’m on it, I want you to know. I’m no feather-bed soldier.at on it, phr.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 247: Indians been here last night, sure as you’re a foot high.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 13: He ‘always went heeled, toted a derringer, and was a bad crowd generally’.at bad crowd (n.) under bad, adj.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 247: I’m no feather-bed soldier.at feather-bed soldier (n.) under feather-bed, adj.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 624: The fellow had been sent for a flask of mescal to the Mustang Spring — the name of the benzinery, probably.at benzine, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 230: Sez the doctor, ‘Take a hair of the dog,’ sez he.at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 153: Having eaten until his jaws had become too tired to masticate more, and the chicken dish looked like the front yard of a bone factory, he gradually thawed .at bone-house (n.) under bone, n.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 152: He was engaged in wharehousing a bowl of clabber.at bonny-clapper, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 18: I’ll bore holes in him till he can’t hold water.at bore a hole in (v.) under bore, v.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 457: Sockless feet, incased in broken-down brogans.at brogan, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 595: We may be caught by the provost-guard, and put in the bull-pen.at bullpen, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 244: These merchants here got into the habit of bullyragging me for not denouncing Wes’ Hardin.at bullyrag, v.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 253: ‘Well, gosh darn it!’ said our captor.at gosh-darn, v.
1883 Sweet & Knox Mexican Mustang 80: When I kem here in '46 thar was dead-oodles of game all around here, — bar, and deer, and wild turkey, and all kinds of varmints.at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 100: When I kem here in ’46 thar was dead-oodles of game all around here.at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 269: They [...] are afraid to take off their warm dry-goods for fear of catching cold.at dry goods, n.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 229: I’m everlastingly sorry.at everlastingly, adv.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 352: ‘Why, ole fel,’ responded one of the youths.at fel, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 247: It’s hellamile when you come to tradin’ lead with the Indians.at hell-a-mile (adj.) under hell, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 257: He was a cowboy, who, being on a ‘high lonesome,’ entered the saloon, and incontinently began discharging his six-shooter at the lamps and mirrors behind the bar.at high lonesome, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 257: The terminus of a railroad in Western Texas [...] is what is called, in the classic vernacular of the country, ‘a hoorah place’.at hurrah, adj.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 246: Geehossifat! I’m the Long-range Rover of the Sierra Mojada Mountains.at jehoshaphat!, excl.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 247: It’s hellamile when you come to tradin’ lead with the Indians.at lead, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 339: Just about the time people have got used to tops buzzing about their ears, the ‘nigger-shooter’ mania breaks out.at nigger shooter (n.) under nigger, n.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 152: ‘You haff some cattles, then?’ ‘Oh, yes! oodles of ’em.’.at oodles, n.
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 247: I’m no feather-bed soldier. I’m old pie, I am; and when it comes to fightin’ Indians, I’m just the sort of a liver-pad you want.at old pie (adj.) under pie, adj.1
1883 Sweet & Knox On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 600: The tatterdemalions gathered around us in high glee.at tatterdemallion, n.