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Vigilantes of Montana in ‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It (1972) 93: Get your horse at once, and go home, or there will be — to pay.at hell to pay under hell, n.
Vigilantes of Montana in ‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It (1972) 93: Get your horse at once, and go home, or there will be — to pay. Roughing It 182: He made a straight cut across lots, preferring fences and ditches to a crooked road.at across lots, phr.
Roughing It 28: I am [‘offish’] with the rag-tag and bob-tail, and a gal has to be.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Roughing It 156: I wonder if they [i.e. stage drivers] bequeathed that bald-headed anecdote to their successors, the railroad brakemen.at bald-headed, adj.
Roughing It 39: Every time it came it damaged somebody. One trip it ‘barked’ the Secretary’s elbow.at bark, v.1
Roughing It 70: No matter [...] whether his [i.e. a pony-rider] ‘beat’ was a level straight road or a crazy trail over mountain crags.at beat, n.1
Roughing It 224: What’s your idea for rakin’ up old personalities and blowin’ about your father?at blowing, n.3
Roughing It 51: The cayote turns, [...] and [...] seems to say: ‘Well, I shall have to tear myself away from you, bub – business is business.’.at bub, n.3
Roughing It 27: Here I’ve sot, and sot, and sot, a-bustin’ musketeers [i.e. mosquitoes].at bust, v.1
Roughing It 315: To use its own phraseology, it [i.e. a mob] came there ‘flush’ and went away ‘busted’.at busted (out), adj.
Roughing It 89: So judiciously taking care of No. 1.at take care of number one, v.
Roughing It 96: Many a notorious coward, many a chicken-livered poltroon, coarse, brutal, degraded, has made his dying speech without a quaver in his voice.at chicken-livered, adj.
N.Y. Times in Roughing It (1872) 47: In addition to all that ordinarily makes up a first-chop dinner, had we not our antelope steak [etc.].at first chop, adj.
Roughing It 325: What would the boys say if they could see us cutting a swell like this in New York?at cut, v.3
Roughing It 45: ‘Well, if that don’t go clean ahead of me, I’m d---d!’.at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
Roughing It 27: ‘Danged if I didn’t begin to think you fellers was deef and dumb.’.at dang, v.
Roughing It 37: We fastened down the coach curtains [...] and made the place as ‘dark as the inside of a cow.’ as the conductor phrased it.at dark as the inside of a cow (adj.) under dark, adj.
Roughing It 57: When the ‘divison-agent’ issued an order to one of these parties he did it with the full understanding that he might have to enforce it with a navy six-shooter, and so he always went ‘fixed.’.at fixed, adj.2
Roughing It 303: There were [...] hotels, theatres, ‘hurdy-gurdy houses,’ wide-open gambling palaces [...] a whiskey mill every fifteen steps.at gin-mill, n.
Roughing It 27: Danged if I didn’t begin to think you fellers was deef and dumb. I did, b’gosh.at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
Roughing It 243: What grinds me is that that Morgan hangs on there and won’t move.at grind, v.
Roughing It 303: There were [...] hotels, theatres, ‘hurdy-gurdy houses,’ wide-open gambling palaces [etc.].at hurdy-gurdy, n.
Roughing It 143: We were ashamed that we had gushed so.at gush, v.
Roughing It 218: In their broken English they said, ‘By’m-by, heap water!’.at heap, adv.
Roughing It 28: I reckon I’m a pretty sociable heifer after all.at heifer, n.
Roughing It 32: Our party made this specimen [i.e. a jack-rabbit] ‘hump himself,’ as the conductor said.at hump, v.1
Roughing It 21: We were six days going from Saint Louis to ‘St. Jo.’.at St Joe, n.
Roughing It 442: Directly he came down ker-whop.at kerwhop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Roughing It 225: You thievin’ black-hearted, white-livered son of a nigger.at white-livered, adj.
Roughing It 357: Capt. Ned sprung to his feet and said: ‘Come along – you’re my meat now, my lad, anyway.’.at meat, n.
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