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[UK] Thackeray Character Sketches 77: Lord Ballyhooly [...] Sweller Mobscau, and their like (all Captain Rooks in their way) have been the ruin of him.
at captain, n.
[UK] Thackeray Character Sketches 77: He has scraped acquaintance with Lord Ballyhooly [...] Sweller Mobscau, and their like (all Captain Rooks in their way).
at sweller, n.
[UK] Thackeray Character Sketches 88: I pity that young nobleman’s or gentleman’s case: Dr. Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.
at swish, v.1
[UK] Thackeray Lovel the Widower 206: He [...] rushes out of the room over Buttons, entering with the afternoon tea.
at buttons, n.
[UK] Thackeray Lovel the Widower 216: If Miss Prior [...] prefers this lint-scraper to me, ought I to baulk at her?
at lint-scraper, n.
[UK] Thackeray Lovel the Widower 110: Lady B. sailed in at this juncture, arrayed in ribbons of scarlet [...] and other gimcracks ornamenting her plenteous person.
at sail in (v.) under sail, v.1
[UK] Thackeray Lovel the Widower 153: He seems a low, vulgar blackguard, that Sawbones.
at sawbones (n.) under saw, n.2
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