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Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land choose

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[Aus] J. Syme Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land 195: He enjoys the much-prized luxury of ease and idleness, at the same time very posssibly forming the plan of his next ‘bolt’.
at bolt, n.1
[Aus] J. Syme Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land 285: They pride themselves in being termed ‘bricks’, that is, because they do not flinch at the lash.
at brick, n.
[Aus] J. Syme Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land 263: On asking Howe if he had killed Slambow, he replied, ‘Yes; and I’ll serve you the same as soon as I can load the piece’.
at piece, n.
[Aus] J. Syme Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land 263: On asking Howe if he had killed Slambow, he replied, ‘Yes; and I’ll serve you the same as soon as I can load the piece.’.
at serve, v.
[Aus] J. Syme Nine Years in Van Diemen’s Land 211: [The] superintendent took notice of a mallet [...] and enquired of the man in charge of tools, ‘what do you do with this?’ The reply was, ‘we drives the wedges with it when splitting up the logs.’ ‘O yes,’ says the knowing super, ‘it may do for that.’.
at super, n.1
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