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‘The Artful Touch’ in Reprinted Pieces (1899) 168: In his shirt-front there’s a beautiful diamond prop.at prop, n.3
‘The Artful Touch’ in Reprinted Pieces (1899) 168: In his shirt-front there’s a beautiful diamond prop. ‘Our Vestry’ Reprinted Pieces (1899) 247: Dogginson [...] informed another gentleman [...] that if he ‘cheek’d him’ he would resort to the extreme measure of knocking his blessed head off.at cheek, v.1
‘The Detective Police’ in Reprinted Pieces (1899) 143: From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences... designing young people who go out gonophing, and other ‘schools’.at gonnof, v.
‘Down with the Tide’ in Reprinted Pieces (1899) 199: The Lumpers dispose of their booty easily to marine store dealers [...] Lumpers also smuggle goods ashore for the crews of vessels.at lumper, n.1
‘Down with the Tide’ in Reprinted Pieces (1899) 199: Then there were the lumpers, or labourers employed to unload vessels. They wore loose canvas jackets with a broad hem in the bottom, turned inside, so as to form a large circular pocket in which they could conceal, like clowns in pantomimes, packages of surprising sizes.at lumper, n.1
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