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The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories choose

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[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 141: The lady was sitting big with rage, but her words were cordial still.
at big, adv.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 47: Quick now. Burn the earth.
at burn the earth (v.) under burn, v.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 67: He once got my cash with his private poker deck that onced, and I’m fixing for to get his’n.
at fix, v.1
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 60: We was sorry while we was a-fogging you up.
at fog up (v.) under fog, v.1
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 59: The drunkards felt the crisis to be a strain upon their sobered nerves [...] ‘Oh well, you’d have got gay. A man gets gay’.
at gay, adj.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 39: Smile, you almond-eyed highbinder.
at highbinder, n.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 47: Dust, you son of a gun! Rattle your hocks!
at rattle one’s hocks (v.) under hock, n.1
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 187: ‘Jumping Jeans!’ murmured the orator to himself.
at jumping, adj.1
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 61: You ornery old mink!
at mink, n.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 40: ‘What’s that mud?’ he demanded. ‘Coffee,’ said Sam politely.
at mud, n.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 282: These hawsses [...] are played out.
at played (out), adj.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 5: Und if der peoples vas to hear you sass old Max Vogel in dis style they would say, ‘Poor old Max’.
at sass (out), v.
[US] O. Wister Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 148: Casey gave him [...] the name of Napoleon Shave-tail, and had his whiskey again paid for by the sympathetic Schmoll.
at shavetail, n.
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