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Mysteries of the Backwoods 183: ‘I’m a roaring earthquake in a fight,’ sung out one of the half-horse, half-alligator sort of fellows, ‘a real snorter of the universe.’.at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Mysteries of the Backwoods 183: ‘I’m a roaring earthquake in a fight,’ sung out one of the half-horse, half-alligator sort of fellows, ‘a real snorter of the universe.’. Mysteries of the Backwoods 28: Whereupon Cash fell into a chair, as he afterwards observed, ‘chawed-up’.at chewed (up), adj.
Mysteries of the Backwoods 165: The way said lion and his companions used to destroy the beasts of the forests [...] was ‘huckleberry above the persimmon’ of any native in the country.at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
Mysteries of the Backwoods 129: Down with your shooting iron, you wild critter.at shooting iron, n.
Mysteries of the Backwoods in Schele de Vere (1872) 225: That ar dare [i.e. deer], I tell you, was a rouser and no mistake.at rouser, n.
Mysteries of the Backwoods 188: Sambo, however, soon dropped his axe.at sambo, n.1
Mysteries of the Backwoods 167: A tall, scape-gallows-looking fellow.at scapegallows, n.
Mysteries of the Backwoods 183: ‘I’m a roaring earthquake in a fight,’ sung out one of the half-horse, half-alligator sort of fellows, ‘a real snorter of the universe. I can strike as hard as fourth proof lightning, and keep it up, rough and tumble, as long as a wild cat.’.at snorter, n.2
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