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The Gilded Age choose

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[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 399: The most airy scheme inflated in the hot air of the capital only reached in magnitude some of his lesser fancies, the by-play of his constructive imagination.
at hot air, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 47: Spread her wide open! Whale it at her!
at whale away, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 246: I had forgotten the railroad, dear, but when a body gets blue, a body forgets everything. [Ibid.] 249: I’m sorry I was blue, but it did seem as if everything had been going against us for whole ages.
at blue, adj.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 244: There’s 200,000 coming, and that will set things booming again.
at boom, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 275: Senators and Representatives [...] always traveled ‘dead-head’ both ways.
at deadhead, adv.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 21: He’s come back to the Forks with jist a hell’s-mint o’ whoop-jamboree notions.
at hell’s mint (n.) under hell, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 405: You will find we can swing a two-thirds vote.
at swing, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ & C. Warner Gilded Age 154: The cross-lots path she traversed to the Seminary.
at across lots, phr.
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