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English Humorists choose

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[UK] Thackeray Eng. Humorists 187: The timid shufflers who only dare to look up at life through blinkers.
at blinkers, n.
[UK] Thackeray Eng. Humorists 167: Are not the Rosalindas of Britain, as charming as the Blousalindas of the Hague?
at blouzelinda, n.
[UK] Thackeray Eng. Humorists 198: All that fuddling and punch-drinking, that club and coffee-house boozing [...] enlarged the waistcoats of the men.
at boozing, n.
[UK] Thackeray Eng. Humorists 148: She loved Tom ‘like pie’.
at like pie (adv.) under pie, n.
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