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Mr and Mrs Frank Berry choose

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[UK] Thackeray Mr and Mrs. Frank Berry (1887) 259: Berry goes gallantly in, and delivers a clinker on the gown-boy’s jaw.
at clinker, n.4
[UK] Thackeray Mr and Mrs. Frank Berry (1887) 97: Claret drawn in profusion from the gown-boy’s grog-shop. (He went down, and split his front teeth).
at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Mr and Mrs Frank Berry (1887) 98: 20th round. The men both dreadfully punished.
at punish, v.
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