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A Daughter of the Tenements 230: I tumbles enough t’ pipe dat dis Mark Waters would be up against it hard if Teresa knowed of dese letters.at up against, phr.
A Daughter of the Tenements 230: I tumbles enough t’ pipe dat dis Mark Waters would be up against it hard if Teresa knowed of dese letters. A Daughter of the Tenements 228: You’re a pretty slick Chink.at Chink, n.
A Daughter of the Tenements 38: He’s not to go to work until he’s fourteen, though what there can be to teach him [...] I don’t understand, unless it is some fancy dido like this drawing.at dido, n.1
A Daughter of the Tenements 224: ‘The habit’ is the term the smokers use to express a recurrence of the craving for the drug.at habit, n.
A Daughter of the Tenements 236: ‘How much did you touch Waters for?’ Bill asked huskily. ‘For a hun.’.at hun, n.
A Daughter of the Tenements 223: On the third floor [...] is what is called there a ‘Joss Temple’.at joss temple, n.
A Daughter of the Tenements 226: A little lacquer tray containing a smoker’s outfit: the pipe, a tiny horn-box of opium, the lamp, and the needle on which the opium is cooked over the lamp.at outfit, n.1
Daughter of the Tenements 225: Some of the thieves were also stool pigeons, sneak agents of headquarters’ detectives.at stool-pigeon, n.1
A Daughter of the Tenements 227: He hastily prepared his pipe and had taken four or five long deep draughts by which a smoker exhausts one preparation.at pipe, n.1
A Daughter of the Tenements 99: But where in the world are we going – slumming?at slum, v.3
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