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Uncommercial Traveller (1898) 22: They don’t go a headerin’ down here wen there an’t no Bobby nor gen’ral Cove fur to hear the splash.at bobby, n.1
Uncommercial Traveller (1898) 22: They don’t go a headerin’ down here wen there an’t no Bobby nor gen’ral Cove fur to hear the splash. Uncommercial Traveller (1898) 52: Mr. Victualler’s assurance that he ‘never allowed any language, and never suffered any disturbance’.at language, n.
Uncommercial Traveller (1898) 349: Heard the sound of a smack – a smack which was not a blow.at smack, n.1
Uncommercial Traveller (1898) 325: Blue-bearded though they were, and bereft of the youthful smoothness of cheek which is imparted by what is termed in Albion a ‘Whitechapel shave’ (and which is, in fact, whitening judiciously applied to the jaws, with the palm of the hand), I recognised them.at Whitechapel shave (n.) under Whitechapel, adj.
Uncommercial Traveller 75: [His] expression was that of a prize-fighter who had closed his eyelids under a heavy blow, but was going immediately to open them, shake his head, and ‘come up smiling’.at come up smiling (v.) under come up, v.1
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