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A Slaver’s Adventures choose

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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 151: I mean to know whether she’ll blab, or keep her mouth shut.
at blab, v.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 55: See that blasted ship — how she is gaining on us!
at blasted, adj.1
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 52: Where is that bloody old Englishman?
at bloody, adv.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 319: The Don has money, and could hire a dozen bravos to dog your steps.
at bravo, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 353: ‘Bully for us!’ shouted the men.
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 30: ‘Go away, you cussed lazy niggers,’ the old fellow shouted.
at cussed, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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