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Amelia (1926) I 16: I find you are some sneaking budge rascal.at sneaking budge, n.
Amelia (1926) I 16: I find you are some sneaking budge rascal. Amelia (1926) I 57: If the lady says such another word to me, d--n me, I will darken her daylights.at darken someone’s daylights (v.) under daylights, n.
Amelia II 70: He said something, too, about my master [...] he said he would do for him, I am sure he said that; and other wicked, bad words, too.at do for, v.
Amelia (1926) I 57: I am sent hither to mill-doll, d--n my eyes.at mill doll, n.
Amelia (1926) I 14: Mr. Booth [...] was no sooner arrived in the prison, than a number of persons gathered round him, all demanding garnish.at garnish, n.
Amelia (1926) I 16: I thought by your look you had been a clever fellow, and upon the snaffling lay.at snaffling lay, n.
Amelia (1926) I 79: It is the opinion which, I believe, most of you young gentlemen of the order of the rag deserve.at order of the rag (n.) under order of…, n.
Amelia (1926) III 146: He immediately laid siege in form, setting himself down in a lodging directly opposite to her, from whence the battery of ogles began to play the very next morning.at ogle, n.
Amelia (1926) I 104: You are so shy and peery, you would almost make one suspect there was more in the matter.at peery, adj.
Amelia (1926) I 26: She was too ignorant of such matters to know that if he had fallen into the hands of the Philistines, [...] he would hardly have been able so soon to recover his liberty.at Philistines, n.
Amelia (1926) I 58: Pox on’t, it is unlucky this was done in a room.at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Amelia (1926) I 23: What a pox, are you such a fresh cull that you do not know this fellow?at what a pox! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Amelia (1926) I 23: There is no such pick-pocket in the whole quad [sic].at quod, n.
Amelia (1926) I 56: Though I never saw the lady in my life, she need not be shy of us: d--n me! I scorn to rap* against any lady. [* A cant word meaning to swear, or rather perjure yourself].at rap, v.1
Amelia (1926) II 216: What say you to [...] a tiff of punch by way of whet?at tiff, n.1
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