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Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea choose

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[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal II 235: ‘Poor devils must have done duty in their buff.’ ‘And the properest dress for them, [...] who wants any clothes in such a climate as this?’.
at buff, n.1
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal ii 17: Your secret, grave, old, rich, culls, just fit to do business with [F&H].
at cull, n.1
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal I 160: Whenever you have a mind to nub them, you need only take me up, and I can peach them all.
at nub, v.
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal I 19: [I] entered into every project which my brain could invent [...] making my fortune a prey to every sharking projector who flattered my vanity with promises of success.
at sharking, adj.
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal i 228: I saw them roast some poor smouches at Lisbon because they would not eat pork [F&H].
at smous, n.
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal I xiii: Jack Twist the rope-maker, who is now the toppingest man in all Radcliffe-highway.
at topping, adj.
[UK] C. Johnston Chrysal II 55: You will never leave off, till these rides bring you a ride in a cart to Tyburn.
at Tyburn, n.
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