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Arizona Nights choose

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[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 219: On top of a few incidental pounds of chile con, baked beans, soda biscuits, ‘air tights’, and other delicacies.
at air-tights, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 24: A white-faced woman, who looked mighty good to us alkalis, opened the flap. [Ibid.] 55: And yet an old ‘alkali’ is never happy anywhere else.
at alkali, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 108: The trouble with you fellows [...] is that you are so plumb alkalied you don’t know the real thing when you see it.
at alkalied, adj.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 40: Now, my dear chap, [...] let’s go somewhere for a B. and S.
at b and s, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 113: In ten minutes I had more friends in Cyanide than they is fiddlers in hell.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 27: Texas Pete had bored one of them poor old crow-bait hosses plumb through the head.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 38: How’d you like to be doin’ a nice quiet job at gardenin’ in the East, where you could belly up to the bar reg’lar every evenin’.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 24: Cost you four bits to water them hosses.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights II 220: What’s biting the locoed stranger?
at bite, v.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 113: But the other girl and the Jew drummer had punched the breeze.
at punch the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 111: Sorry to disturb your repose, bub.
at bub, n.3
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 116: ‘What?’ says I. ‘Elucidate, my bucko.’.
at bucko, n.1
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 118: Good Lord! [...] he ain’t celebratin’ gettin’ that bunch of buzzards, is he?
at buzzard, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 116: I’d be t-totally chawed up and spit out if I was goin’ to join these minin’ terrapins defacin’ the bosom of nature.
at chewed (up), adj.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 95: When the last man had returned from chuck.
at chuck, n.3
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 9: I’d walked into it, chuckleheaded as a prairie dog!
at chuckleheaded, adj.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 170: We were both old hands at the business, had each in our time suffered the ‘cotton-mouth’ thirst, and the memory of it outweighed any desire for treasure.
at cottonmouth, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 134: I saw once in some crank physical culture periodical that a cowboy’s life was physically ill-balanced.
at crank, adj.1
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 9: I cut loose, and old Meat-in-the-pot missed fire.
at cut loose, v.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 193: Speakin’ of snakes [...] I mind when they catched the great-grandaddy of all the bullsnakes up at Lead in the Black Hills.
at grand-daddy, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 38: Darn! six hours to day!
at darn!, excl.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 121: As fast as each one handed over his dust or dinero he made a rush for his cabin.
at dinero, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights III 306: I’ve done you dirt. Cut my heart out, if you want to.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights III 306: Don’t leave me here to be crushed in this vice. You wouldn’t do that to a yellow dog.
at yellow dog, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 121: They had seen that white quartz with the gold stickin’ into it, and that’s the same as a dose of loco to miner gents.
at dose, n.1
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 40: But I fired up. ‘You darn ungrateful pup,’ I said.
at fire up, v.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 183: Denton [...] laughing fit to kill, danced off up the beach.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 121: He made a rush for his cabin, piled on his saddle and pack, and pulled freight in a cloud of dust.
at pull (one’s) freight (v.) under freight, n.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights II 223: The stranger looked him in the eye for nearly a half-minute without lowering his revolvers. ‘I go you,’ said he briefly.
at go, v.
[US] S.E. White Arizona Nights 191: We went aboard and made our Greaser boatman head for Yuma.
at greaser, adj.
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