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Tom Sawyer, Detective choose

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[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. XI: Brace Dunlap, who’s been sniveling here over a brother he never cared a brass farthing for.
at not care a farthing, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. IV: We was ready for business now.
at business, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. II: Tom says that’s all right, he reckoned he could fix it with the head steward.
at fix, v.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. II: By jimminy, it’s int’resting! I’d like to get a look at him.
at by jiminy! (excl.) under jiminy!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective xi 527: A mud-turtle of a back-settlement lawyer [DA].
at mud turtle (n.) under mud, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. VI: But she busted in on him there and just piled into him and snowed him under.
at pile in (v.) under pile, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. VI: All about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di’monds they’ve smouched off of the corpse.
at smouge, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. III: But now we was up a stump, for we couldn’t go to bed. We had to set up and watch one another.
at up a stump under stump, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. IV: He said that’s the ticket.
at that’s the ticket! (excl.) under ticket, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 75: Now who ever had anything agin that poor trifling no-account?
at no-account, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 29: He allowed we would steal the bogus swag.
at bogus, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 20: They take that chance to bribe somebody to keep watch on me – porter or boots or somebody.
at boots, n.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 77: Then he busted out, and had another of them forty-rod laughs of his’n.
at bust out, v.3
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 74: There ain’t any druthers about it, Huck Finn; nobody said anything about druthers.
at druthers, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 66: ‘It ain’t a ghost at all. It’s Jake Dunlap his own self!’ ‘Oh your granny!’ I say.
at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 29: He put up that scheme on us and [...] we went ahead and done it perfectly exact, like a couple of pudd’n-heads.
at pudding-head, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 63: He was so cheerful and simple-hearted and pudd’n-headed and good.
at pudding-headed, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 31: When he wasn’t looking I hooked it [i.e. a screwdriver].
at hook, v.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 96: By jings, I was sure I seen Tom give a kind of a faint little start.
at jings!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 15: ‘Land!’ he says, ‘it’s like old times to hear all this tittle-tattle.’.
at land, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 30: We loaded him till he fell out of his chair and laid there snoring.
at load, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 11: It was always nuts for Tom Sawyer – a mystery was.
at nuts, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 68: You’re right; play it on us, too; play it on us same as the others.
at play, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 89: Well, it made our lawyer look pretty sick; and it knocked Tom silly, too.
at sick, adj.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 24: I [...] tracked him to a second-hand slop-shop and see him buy a red flannel shirt.
at slops, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 43: We would be the first to tell the family [...] all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di’monds they’ve smouched off of the corpse.
at smooch, v.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 51: But she busted in on him there and just piled into him and snowed him under.
at snow, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 115: He’s been swelling around here with them a month; yes, sir, twelve thousand dollars’ worth of di’monds on him.
at swell, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 15: ‘Why, they don’t talk about you at all.’ [...] ‘The nation!’ he says, surprised; ‘why is that?’.
at tarnation, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective 46: Then the jury’ll twaddle and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they’ll fetch in a verdict that he got shot.
at twaddle, v.
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