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[US] T. Winthrop John Brent (1876) 195: You may go to the devil across lots, on that runt pony of yourn, with your new friends, for all I care.
at go to hell across lots under across lots, phr.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent (1876) 295: Pallis blowin’ her whistle like all outdoors.
at all outdoors, adv.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent (1876) 22: Some likes it [...] but taint like good old Argee to me.
at argee, n.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 276: Find an Englishman vital enough to be a Come-outer, and you have found a man worthy to be the peer of an American with a Yankee education.
at come out, v.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent (1876) 295: Luck has druv him out of hisself and made a reg’lar gonoph of him.
at gonnof, n.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 195: You may go to the devil across lots, on that runt pony of yourn, with your new friends, for all I care.
at go to hell across lots! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent (1876) 19: You’re [...] jess three quarters richer ’n ef you owned the hull kit and boodle of it.
at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 52: We have no time to lose, if we expect to make Missouri before winter.
at make, v.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 279: That are’s wut I call a screechin’ good price fur an old one-eyed nigger.
at screeching, adj.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 17: I’ve tuk a middlin’ kind of shine to you.
at shine, n.3
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 280: He made these yer boots, an’ reg’lar stompers they is.
at stompers, n.
[US] T. Winthrop John Brent 196: I’ll be switched round creation ef you do.
at I’ll be switched! (excl.) under switch, v.1
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