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The Virginians choose

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[UK] Thackeray Virginians I 188: Will is an old file, in spite of his smooth face.
at file, n.1
[UK] Thackeray Virginians I 62: Serjeants, school-masters, slave-overseers, used the cane freely. Our little boys had been horsed many a day by [...] their Scotch tutor .
at horse, v.
[UK] Thackeray Virginians I 209: She may go to Tunbridge, or she may go to Bath, or she may go to Jericho, for me.
at Jericho, n.
[UK] Thackeray Virginians I 190: ‘You were hurt by the betting just now?’ ‘Well,’ replied the lad, ‘I am sort o’ hurt.’.
at sort of, phr.
[UK] Thackeray Virginians II Ch. 10 82: I’ll drive my cheese-toaster through his body.
at cheese toaster (n.) under cheese, n.1
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