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Early Times in Texas, or, The Adventures of Jack Dobell choose

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[US] J.C. Duval Adventures of Jack Dobell 114: I arrived a little after sunset, so ‘beat out’ with my day’s tramp that I turned into bed.
at beat, adj.
[US] J.C. Duval Adventures of Jack Dobell 123: Crossing on the way a sluggish bayou, over which I ‘cooned it’ on a fallen tree [...] I saw light ahead.
at coon, v.
[US] J.C. Duval Adventures of Jack Dobell 99: These dogs were not mongrels or ‘curs of low degree,’ neither were they of the ‘suck egg’ breed.
at suck-egg, adj.
[US] J.C. Duval Adventures of Jack Dobell 117: How it happened I did not see them sooner, I cannot imagine, unless I had fallen into what the negroes call a ‘fit of the mazes’.
at fit of the mazes (n.) under fit, n.3
[US] J.C. Duval Adventures of Jack Dobell 44: I had a great inclination to ‘hole up’ myself.
at hole up, v.
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