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Yankey in London 105: He was a gentleman of too refined taste to advocate this Alsatia term.at Alsatia, n.
Yankey in London 105: He was a gentleman of too refined taste to advocate this Alsatia term. Yankey in London 88: Thousands get their bread by making ornamental dresses.at bread, n.1
Yankey in London 104: We apply it to personal grace, and call a trim, well-built young man, clever.at clever, adj.
Yankey in London 104: Where we apply it to personal grace, and call a trim, well-built young man, clever [...] they use it to signify skilful, adroit; and the man who breaks a dwelling-house, a prison, or a neck, is clever.at clever, adj.
Yankey in London 102: The cant expressions now in vogue are [...] ‘that’s a good one’.at good one, n.
Yankey in London 137: He describes and magnifies the excellences of his artificial eyes [...] he boasts of a number of belles and beaux who, by aid of his optics, have made wonderful havoc in the wars of Venus.at optic, n.
Yankey in London 136: There are, in London, a species of mechanical quacks [...] They undertake to furnish the blind with artificial eyes, and the cripple with arms and legs.at quack, n.1
Yankey in London 102: Every man of common sense was a quiz, and every blockhead quizzical.at quiz, n.
Yankey in London 160: Dutch scoundrel, French coward, and German thick-scull are familiar in his abuse.at thick-skulled (adj.) under thick, adj.
Yankey in London 63: His maternal grandmother was the celebrated Moll Huggins, well known in the metropolis, about the year 1737, by the name of wapping Moll.at wapping dell (n.) under wapping, n.
Yankey in London 169: He guessed he should go to Brumajim [sic] to see them make Whitechapel needles.at Whitechapel, adj.
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