1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow II 230: A pie in her hands the size of a pulpit canopy. [...] ‘My, what a beauty!’ exclaimed Grizzle.at beauty, n.1
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow I 61: I must request you to be a little more careful in your language. You have come amidst gentlemen here, not blackguards.at blackguard, n.
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow I 109: When our church bells were going for service, Major Parrifers carriage turned out with the ladies all in full fig.at in full fig under fig, n.3
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow I 273: ‘It’s hard lines,’ he said humbly, ‘when the lad’s of a’ age to be a earning, and the master can’t be got to take him on.’.at hard lines, n.
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow II 242: The man opened his mouth and closed it again; like, as Molly put it, a born natural.at natural, n.
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow I 301: For once in his screwy life, old Brown was generous.at screwy, adj.
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow III 41: If you shove in your oar, Johnny Ludlow, or presume to interfere with me, I’ll pummel you to powder.at shove one’s oar in (v.) under shove, v.
1874 E.K. Wood Johnny Ludlow II 240: It’s not me and that wench we’ve got now as is going to stop together.at wench, n.