1857 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.
1857 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.
1857 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.
1859 Thackeray Virginians II Ch. 10 82: I’ll drive my cheese-toaster through his body.at cheese toaster (n.) under cheese, n.1