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Five Years’ Penal Servitude 220: He stayed in a place doing the grand, and sucking the flats, till the folks began to smoke him as not all there.at not all there, adj.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 220: He stayed in a place doing the grand, and sucking the flats, till the folks began to smoke him as not all there. Five Years’ Penal Servitude 246: She were an out and outer in going into shops on the filch.at out-and-outer, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 30: They were of all grades of society, from the City merchant to the wretched little street Arab.at arab, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 203: I afterwards heard that my wideawake friend cleared over £16,000 out of the transaction.at wide-awake, adj.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 140: We ain’t any of us proud, so if you have’nt all got sheeroots, throw us baccy.at bacca, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 123: There is no doubt but there are many of the officials of the convict prisons who are what the Yankees call ‘bad eggs.’.at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 221: You came down with the last batch from the Bank, didn’t yer?at Bank, the, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 295: The director ordered him to be ‘bashed’ or flogged.at bash, v.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 157: There were the evidences of former floggings, or ‘bashings,’ as the prisoners call them.at bashing, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 199: Greedy beggar, I shall look sharp after him next time.at beggar, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would chatter gaily and enter with gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues,’ – evading the police.at bilk, v.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 32: They depended on [...] the fact that in nine cases out of ten an ‘old bird’ would betray himself.at old bird, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 167: The fifty men on his landing all had some wants to be attended to, but he came to look after his new birds first.at bird, n.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 61: On alighting from the ‘sable maria’ we were ushered through a door into a long, white-washed passage, with cells on one side.at Black Maria, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 245: Blessed if they didn’t identify her as having lifted some things out of the shop.at blessed, adj.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 222: The Spaniards would always ’elp a bloke if he was once over the lines.at bloke, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 222: I worked in the galleries a making casemates for the guns, and blooming hard work it was.at blooming, adj.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 182: The master-tailor was a peppery little man [...] very fond of ‘blowing up’ and never liking to be contradicted.at blow up, v.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 235: Once we had a rare blow-out at some swell’s place at Aigburth.at blow-out, n.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 244: Blowed, old man, if we don’t go to Paris.at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 4: Both desisted from their own recriminations as to ‘rounding’ and ‘blowing’ on each other.at blowing, n.3
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 231: I pictured to myself his sitting in that room [...] papered with that terrible paper, and full of the suffering of a fit of blue devils.at blue devils, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would [...] enter with great gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues,’ — evading the police.at bilk the blues (v.) under blue, n.1
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would chatter gaily and enter with gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues’ – evading the police.at blues, n.2
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 237: He would palm upon him [...] a tanner, a bob, or half a bull, according to what coin he gave to be changed.at bob, n.3
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 244: I proposed we should have a booze.at booze, n.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 189: Little Jemmy, the master-tailor, was a principal warder, as was also the master-shoemaker, and they were each ‘Boss’ over their own shops.at boss, n.2
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 303: Oh, bother the fellows!at bother, v.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 121: Now and again a warder does get ‘bowled out,’ and comes to grief.at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
Five Years’ Penal Servitude 262: One of a gang who practised with the ‘Broads’ card-sharping and the ‘confidence trick’.at broads, n.
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