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The Forest Rose choose

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[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose II iii: Now some folks would keep it out and out.
at out-and-out, adv.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I ii: Darnation! If I had not been bussing Lid Rose!
at darnation!, excl.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I iii: That’s a darnation queer kind of a tune.
at darnation, adv.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I i: bel.: (Aside.) I must speak to her, and dash the native.
at dash, v.1
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose II ii: She’s cracked too, by hokey!
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose II iv: I won’t dance with any fellow Jack-at-pinch. [Ibid.] I will take no girl Jack-at-a-pinch. Tom Clover won’t have you, and I think myself as good as he.
at jack-at-a-pinch (n.) under jack, n.1
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I i: But, seriously, I intend to see the city, that is poz.
at pos, adj.1
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose II ii: See! he is honoring us with a squint through his quizzer.
at quizzer, n.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose II iv: What a scape-gallows wretch it must be! to tell such a lie!
at scapegallows, n.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I i: Her simplicity will ruin all, split me!
at split me! (excl.) under split, v.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I iv: Old Squaretoes must not suspect.
at square toes (n.) under square, adj.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I i: That for an English dandy, (Snapping his fingers,) with his squinter!
at squinter, n.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I iv: As for the bumpkin, her lover, he must take his walking papers.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
[US] S. Woodworth Forest Rose I iii: Lid Rose — Deacon Forest’s negro wench.
at wench, n.
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