1691 Dryden King Arthur Prol. 38 n.p.: Among the rest there are a sharping set That pray for us, and yet against us bet [F&H].at sharp, v.
1691 Dryden King Arthur in Works (1899) Prologue line 38: Among the rest there are a sharping set That pray for us, and yet against us bet .at sharping, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 100: I should have had the Established Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute.at on someone’s back (adj.) under back, n.1
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 46: That same old weary tale [...] he will tell till he dieth, every time he hath gotten his barrel full and feelth his exaggeration-mill a-working.at have one’s barrel full (v.) under barrel, n.1
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 231: The moral and physical stenches of that intolerable old buzzard-roost.at buzzard roost (n.) under buzzard, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xii 155: These innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come [...] to accept it as a truth.at clam, n.1
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 378: I could see her [i.e. England] erect statues and monuments to her unspeakable Georges and other royal and noble clothes-horses.at clotheshorse, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 147: But you can’t cork that kind [...] Her clack was going all day.at cork, v.1
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 16: I said as much to Clarence; but this mocking featherhead only said – ‘An Sir Kay had had time to get another skin of sour wine into him.’.at featherhead, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 113: The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. [Ibid.] 424: I chanced another flyer.at flyer, n.2
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xv 177: The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire.at hello-girl, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee Ch. xliii: I couldn’t do anything with the letters after I had written them. But it put in the time.at put in, v.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 334: The properties required me to stick it out.at stick it out (v.) under stick it, v.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 432: The blow came crashing down and knocked him all to rags.at knock all to rags (v.) under knock, v.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxx 382: As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick.at labrick, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 482: A sort of raiment which was a surer protection from meddling law-dogs in Britain than any amount of mere innocence.at law-dog (n.) under law, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 561: Why not take the lightning off the outer fences, and give them a chance?at lightning, n.
1889 ‘Mark Twain’ A Connecticut Yankee 382: As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick.at lummocks, n.