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[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 38: A young gallows bird, eh? – a marked criminal, eh?
at gallows-bird, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 58: But I got off, blast their eyes, and no thanks to any of them.
at blast someone’s eyes! (excl.) under blast, v.1
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 31: Aye, a bloody cool game, dom’d if it wasn’t.
at bloody, adv.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: D’ye suppose they’d pardon me, arter choking a woman to death [...] and braining her two children with the fire shovel?
at brain, v.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too.
at cady, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I went upon the cross and began to rob and steal.
at cross, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 29: None but tip-top crossmen visited the Golden Balls – vulgar thieves were [...] carefully excluded.
at cross-man (n.) under cross, adj.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: Laughter and applause, during which Bill ‘dampened his dust’ and renewed his quid.
at damp the dust (v.) under damp, v.1
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: Just as I was prepared to dance the hempen hornpipe, up comes a chap and hands a slip of paper to the sheriff.
at dance, v.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 38: A young gallows bird, eh? – a marked criminal, eh?
at eh?, phr.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 63: A glimpse of her [...] ivory globes.
at globe, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 64: Let the old vagabond go to grass.
at go to grass, v.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 57: One Arm’d Bill [...] said [...] ‘although I’ve got no larnin’, and have lost one of my grappling-irons, I feel myself among pals and brothers’.
at grappling iron, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 31: Joe planks the half.
at half, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 33: Hell’s fury – all is lost!
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too, / A gallus jerve, a pair of squills so polish’d and so new.
at jerve, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too.
at kicks, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: Cabin lay – robbing vessels.
at lay, n.3
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I’ve oft-times been in limbo.
at limbo, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: The lushes had to suffer when I caught them on the snooze.
at lush, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 62: Mum’s the word, captain.
at mum’s the word under mum, adj.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 27: My head pains me shockingly.
at shockingly, adv.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 60: I got a pair of flash kicks, a tog and cady too, / A gallus jerve, a pair of squills so polish’d and so new.
at squills, n.
[US] G. Thompson Jack Harold 38: Mr. Piggot kicked our hero heavily in the side, and ordered him to go to the door and take in his ‘swill,’ as he facetiously termed it.
at swill, n.
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