1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 348: We is free American citizens, and ain’t used to being run over by every beggar that floats on the sea.at beggar, n.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 119: I think the Englishman has got a belly-full that will last him for a month.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 151: I mean to know whether she’ll blab, or keep her mouth shut.at blab, v.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 54: I was within two days’ sail of the coast of Cuba, with five hundred blackbirds on board.at blackbird, n.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 35: ‘Ah,’ muttered Cringy, with a sigh of relief, ‘de blame rascal no teal sheeps more. Me berry glad dat he be killed. He great humbug.’.at blame, adj.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 19: ‘Blast them,’ muttered the captain, in an undertone [...] ‘I hope that they will keep their distance, and not throw obstructions in the way of our sailing.’ [Ibid.] 106: Blast me, Fred, but that is a pretty face.at blast, v.1
1873 W.H. Thomes A Slaver’s Adventures 199: Blast my eyes if I stand such nonsense any longer.at blast someone’s eyes! (excl.) under blast, v.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 55: See that blasted ship — how she is gaining on us!at blasted, adj.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 357: Blow me, if this isn’t the best thing I ever heard of.at blow me!, excl.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 137: I can speak for meself, and I’m blowed if it be me.at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 47: The captain, completely blown by the amount of sail which he had carried, was incapable of proceeding farther, and was making desperate attempts to climb a tree.at blown (out), adj.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 29: ‘Come, Cringy,’ said Murphy, removing the liquor, ‘you have bowsed up your jib enough for one day. Take us over the bar, and you shall have a bottle of brandy for your wives.’.at bouse, v.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 319: The Don has money, and could hire a dozen bravos to dog your steps.at bravo, n.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 16: He’s got a touch of the yellow Jack, and don’t know the main-boom from the jib-boom, or a doctor from a horse-marine. He will probably kick the bucket.at kick the bucket, v.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 31: ‘Ah, dat English man-of-war I know,’ the old fellow cried. ‘Now, I go off and get five dollars, and humbug John Bull, you see.’.at John Bull, n.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 353: ‘Bully for us!’ shouted the men.at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 58: When it does arrive it will come butt end foremost, like a nigger in a fight.at butt, n.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 206: Ugly looking chaps they [i.e. alligators] is. Big fat ones, with jaws like the schooner’s hatchway.at chap, n.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 176: I’m true as steel, but I ain’t going to have no games come over me by the old man.at come over, v.2
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 120: I wish you a good day, unless you would like to take a crack at me, just for friendship’s sake.at crack, n.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 354: ‘I’ve just got his distance,’ said the mate. ‘Let me crack at him once more, and I’ll do better.’.at crack, v.1
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 29: O, crackee; dat no pay me. Gib me thirty dollars, and I put ’em aboard.at cracky!, excl.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 30: ‘Go away, you cussed lazy niggers,’ the old fellow shouted.at cussed, adj.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 162: Some rum was brought on deck, and when the steward placed it in the old darky’s hand, the eyes of the latter sparkled with joy.at darkie, n.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 35: We selected a keg of tobacco as the next most acceptable present for our darky friends.at darkie, adj.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 345: I’ll be darned if I didn’t forget to draw that ’ere shot.at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 47: Darn it, man [...] can’t you render a little assistance to a friend in distress?at darn!, excl.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 29: I sell tree hundred niggers at twenty dollars apiece, and you got darned good bargain. I lose money.at darned, adv.
1873 W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 179: Lift the old feller up [...] and lets see if he’s gone to Davy Jones’s locker.at go to Davy Jones’s locker (v.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.