1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 62: They mumble of ‘descended from Duke of York, royal blood,’ all my eye, et cet.at all my eye, phr.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 33: The establishment was a bad egg.at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 60: If it had been one of Colt’s ’stead of your beastly British make.at beastly, adj.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: Where the blazes is the ‘dough’ to come from?at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 27: Hay, you bloats with that ambulance, come over here.at bloat, n.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 7: There was going to be a big procession [...] In the streets, which the ‘blues’ had cleared of the stages and carts, a double set of contrary streams of people.at blue, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 52: You’re a brave lad, master – fought better than any six king’s blue jackets.at bluejacket, n.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 97: Hullo! I say, Jem! vy strike me lame, here’s the pretty lady what give us the blunt tother day!at blunt, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 10: He had a way of ‘boning on fellers’ – (more plainly, tale-telling) and currying favor with the master.at bone, v.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: Oh! you peppered the big Johny Bull of a moll!at John Bull, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: Oh! you peppered the big Johny Bull of a moll! Good for you! Bully!at bully!, excl.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: ‘Another man pays,’ he used to say as he saw his roll of fives swept away, and planked down another bundle.at bundle, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 9: Why, the worst bit of calico that ever an engine runner knew would be an angel to that woman!at calico, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 87: If Valentine hadn’t shown it in Ben Jonson, they’d have been clapperclawing yet.at clapperclaw, v.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 13: I think you’re coming the double over me, Bill [...] You must have got more than sixteen dollars for that watch!at come the double (v.) under come the..., v.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: Won’t he come down with any more chink?at come down with (v.) under come down, v.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 42: D----- if I wouldn’t look at him all night if he’d money out for me!at damn, v.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 36: ’Taint you Edwards, for the pocket-dipping on the Third Avenue car?at dipping, n.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: If ever I raise a pile big enough, I’ll do London as a tip-top figure.at do, v.2
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 13: I think you’re coming the double over me, Bill [...] You must have got more than sixteen dollars for that watch! [HDAS].at come the double (on/over) (v.) under double, n.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 30: [He] had fallen in with a rough crowd up town around Mackerelville, and when he liked he could be the ‘dusty boy, you just bet high’.at dusty, adj.1
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 7: From Canal-street up to Waverley Place, the easy pieces, the girls of joy, were ‘kinder thick’.at easy, adj.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 22: You gals spend enough to know something about earning cash.at gal, n.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 12: The Jehu set him down at the door of the liveliest kind of gayest house that he knew.at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 11: She had ventured into the throng, under the ‘go it, lemons’ principle.at go it, boots! (excl.) under go it!, excl.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 46: If Nathan excused him for a couple of nights, and kept quiet, away from Matty, ‘she gave it him hot’ the next time they met.at give it hot (and strong) (v.) under hot, adv.
1868 H.L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty 62: You see the Olympic has been doing huge with the English blonde, ‘from the Haymarket London.’.at huge, adj.